Giving Tuesday

Join us this #GivingTuesday to help support the children at Sonnia House! Your donations

will have a direct impact on the children. The funds raised will help provide two hot nutritious

meals a day along with an afternoon snack, a safe place to stay at night with adult

supervision, all of which help the kids go to school and prepare them for a bright future.

This year we have a goal to raise $5,000 by December 10th. And on #GivingTuesday your

donations will be matched by Facebook, but sign on early because the money will go fast!

Whether you donate $5 or $50, this will help Sonnia House meet the needs of the children.

Sonnia House exists to empower the orphans and other vulnerable children of Mattru Jong

in Sierra Leone, West Africa and help them regain lost hope through social support and

education.

Please join us in providing food and housing for the children of Matru Jong so they do not

have to forage in these trash heaps anymore.

Learn more here where your donation will be going: https://bit.ly/3OBoiOR

Graduation Successes

All of the students sent to college last year received their post-secondary scholarships to continue their education.  Your donation made that possible.  The post-secondary scholarship is available only after the student successfully completes their first year.  Your donations covered that first year enabling these students to have the opportunity to obtain a college degree.  So far, all the students that were sent to college have received the scholarship.

All seven high school graduates for 2022 passed their high school exam and are now heading to their post-secondary education.

Congrats Benson

This week marks a milestone for Sonnia House: we have our first high school graduate! Congrats Benson, we are so proud of you. This is a video clip from the celebration party we threw for him. 

Benson's Story

(Benson Lusenie is a 17-year old young man who came to Sonnia House (Smithsonnia Children’s Home) after his father died and his mother was unable to help continue his schooling due to illness. Read his testimony of how Sonnia House took him in and enabled him to continue his education.)

I came to Smithsonnia Children’s Home (SCH) with the help of a neighbour. As I was hesitant, she encouraged me and offered to accompany me to SCH. When I told them my story, I was accepted.

SCH started paying my school fees and provided my uniforms, shoes, school bags, exercise books and text books. This support has continued up to the present time when I’m now in Senior Secondary School Level 4 which is the final stage of my secondary school education and will sit to the West African Secondary School Certificate Examination in June 2018 for admission into a Tertiary Institution.

It is like I still have a father even though I am an orphan. Truly, SCH is an amazing place. When I grow up, I want to contribute to an environment like that. With the continued support from SCH, I plan to study medicine.

I want to thank Smithsonnia Children’s Home for taking care of me and all my responsibilities. I want to offer sincere thanks and appreciation to Madam Massah F. Smith as the Founder of this noble organisation. Special thanks goes to Franconia Community Church (food provision) and Arlington Community Church (donation of our truck and a generous special offering) both in Virginia USA..

Your sponsorship has transformed my life. It has allowed to be an educated person and become a service provider to my colleagues, OVCs, and my community at large.

It has been and will continue to be such a blessing to us. Thanks for your kindness shown to us.

May the Almighty GOD Bless you and your entire families abundantly. !!!Amen!!!

Best Regards

Benson Luseni

School Uniform Drive

We need your help!

The Sonnia Home children will be unable to attend school without new school uniforms which have to be hand-sewn in the local community. Due to the flooding in Free Town, Sierra Leone the cost of goods is rapidly increasing so we need to purchase the fabric as soon as possible.

Your gift of $40 covers one uniform, but each child needs two uniforms (one to was one to wear) so your gift of $80 would cover one child's uniform needs for the entire school year. We need to purchase two uniforms for 123 children so help us spread the word.

The uniforms are handmade by members of the local community