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LevelSub-sub-series
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)SCF/OP/4/SIE
TitleSierra Leone
Extent21 files
Date1963-2003
DescriptionReports, correspondence and papers relating to Save the Children Fund's (SCF) involvement in Sierra Leone. Early files comprise funding requests which were primarily rejected by SCF on grounds of limited funds. SCF involvement in the country started to grow from the 1990s onwards.
Access ConditionsThere are files in this series which have been closed for 25 years in accordance with Save the Children's policy.
There are files and items in this series which contain personal information covered by Data Protection regulations. These files and items have an extended closure period.
Further information about the closures can be found in the relevant file level catalogue description.
Access StatusPartially closed
Closed Until01/01/2100
Administrative HistoryAllocations 1974-1993. Programme spending in 1993/94, 1994/95. See later annual reports for any subsequent allocations.

During the 1970s and 1980s SCF made a small number of grants to organisations in Sierra Leone and sponsored a Voluntary Service Overseas volunteer working at Serabu Hospital. In 1973 SCF inherited a sponsorship programme administered by Sierra Leone Children's Home Association from the International Union for Child Welfare. In the 1990s SCF began an Agricultural Rehabilitation project in Sierra Leone and began working on projects largely relating to the release and re-integration of child soldiers.
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