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The show some love Teddy Bear project is aimed at bringing smiles and hope to the kids in Sierra Leone through the gesture of gifts that include Teddy Bears, school bags, toys, baby dolls, soccer balls, cameras and other kids items. Our belief is that by sharing, we provide kids with hope that someone does care and that they are not alone in the aftermath of all that happened during the Ebola outbreak, mudslides (flood) and post-war effects. In turn, kids will grow up with a sense of generosity, peace in their hearts and love, and eventually learn from this and 'pass it on'. Like other communities in Sierra Leone, we also wanted to do something to bring a smile to kids dealing with these aftermaths. The B-Gifted Foundation designed the Teddy Bear Project in the fall of 2010 as a way to reach children in post-war and crisis-struck Sierra Leone with a symbol of unconditional love. The goal for that year was to raise 40 Teddy Bears for kids living at Amputee camps and have them delivered with community support. Though initially a modest effort, the program vastly increased in scale when the Ebola outbreak occurred, destroying families and leaving many children orphaned'. 'This Project which uses Teddy Bear 'is short annual event, which however leaves a lasting impression on the children it reaches. For many of these kids, it's their first toy, it's their first Teddy Bear and play dolls. The kids cherish it and so they hold on to their teddies for as long as they can, often years, receiving joy and comfort for the entire period — just think of how fond you were of your own teddy bear, or favorite toy. It’s not a multimillion initiative: even just a few thousand Dollars can make a real impact in the lives of many. Our recent activities, we added books and school bags as well as pens, pencils and crayons to show that we can share the gift of love and value education as an instrument to help liberate the kids from these challenges.
If you wish to know more or are moved to help, please contact us to learn more and to show how you can help b-gifted reach more communities and make a difference in the world at www.b-gifted.org/contact or email us from our Instragram contact. We will love to hear from you and get ideas for resources that can make a huge difference.
The objective of the Digital Hope project is to provide innovative ICT skills among amputee war victims as tools to enhance education and a means of access to sustainable livelihood. The project’s aim is to use ICT as tool to creating an inclusive society. The project is innovative because war victims whose arms and limbs were chopped off during the war are for the first time given new ease of hope of access through access to technology which was not the case before the project. The project is helping to bridge the digital divide by targeting an approximately 20,000 amputee war victims marginalized from information technology. The project is creating impact as it is giving war amputated victims a new voice through ICT tools and a way to learn skills with a potential for employment and empowerment, and a chance to bear witness and share their war time stories to the world thereby creating attention to their plight, hope and healing. Although there is peace across the entire country currently, most of the war victims still cannot live a normal life, and marginalized from the main stream of using Information Communication Technologies (ICT). This educational practice in a non-formal setting creates the leverage for people who are unable to access facilities at a formal education setting because of their conditions to be able to do so at last. The project does shows what can be achieved through creating a space for people with disability to gain access to educational tools
