Sudu Salone

Sudu is a non for profit organization in Sierra Leone. We place orphaned children ages 3-6 into loving homes with families who we train and support, whilst attending to their educational needs, physical health and socio-emotional wellbeing. “Sudu” in Fulah means “home” and this is what the organization believes in providing for the hundreds of thousands of orphans in Sierra Leone. SUDU’s Mission To provide quality homes and education to orphans, that focuses on their specific, social-emotional needs. SUDU’s Vision To provide Sierra Leone a model for quality orphan care, adoption and foster care that addresses these children’s most critical developmental and social-emotional needs. SUDU provides three layers of services including; 1) Selection of families who are trained to support the orphaned children that will be placed into their homes (2)Provision of education to orphans. Nursery/Preschool-Kindergarten with a focus on on social emotional learning (3) Within the broader community, SUDU works partner organizations who work with the children to serve as intermediary foster homes until children are fully placed in care. To date, the organization has set up the necessary systems including; building a team of passionate staff members, conducting the research to enable quality programming for orphans, securing the right partnerships with government agencies and creating the necessary organizational structures to fully render on their