Blog
Field updates, impact stories, and insights from LEWAF's work across Sierra Leone.
Impact Stories
A teenage girl was exploited by an adult man years older than her — and when she found the courage to speak, LEWAF stood beside her family through investigation, arrest, and the road toward trial.
Impact Stories
When a mother learned her young daughter had been taken across the border without her consent, LEWAF moved within days to bring the child home.
Impact Stories
After decades of marriage, one woman's husband abandoned the family he'd built with her — until LEWAF helped bring him back to his responsibilities.
Impact Stories
A young mother endured years of economic and physical abuse before a violent attack brought her to LEWAF's door — and, eventually, a path back to her own family.
Impact Stories
42 women have upgraded from hand-to-mouth petty trading to owning and operating their own shops. These are their stories, in their own words.
Campaigns
When 20 Community-Based Justice Advocates took their resolutions to the Human Rights Commission, the Legal Aid Board, and the Western Area Rural District Council, few expected Parliament to respond within weeks.
Impact Stories
Twenty women were transformed from petty traders into Community-Based Justice Advocates — a frontline network bringing justice to the doorstep of Sierra Leone's most vulnerable communities.
Field Activities
1,009 women in 13 communities are now saving together, borrowing from each other, and celebrating a once-a-year share-out day that has become a source of hope for entire households.
Field Activities
An estimated 2,000 people — government ministries, the Human Rights Commission, national media, and entire communities — turned out to watch women demonstrate what they had learned about the law.
Field Activities
Ask a man how he'd feel if someone battered his own mother, and the answer is always the same: revenge. LEWAF's MenCare program turns that instinct into a campaign against domestic violence.
Impact Stories
Five women's cooperatives — registered businesses making soap, baking bread, and running waste collection services — were built from the ground up by women who once traded from petty stalls.
Announcements
LEWAF is an accredited Legal Aid Service provider running four community mediation offices across Sierra Leone — built on a five-part model its team calls PLATE.
Impact Stories
What started as a 12-month paralegal pilot in a single community has grown into a legal empowerment movement spanning Sierra Leone's Western Area and beyond.
Announcements
From a Memorandum of Understanding with World Hope International to advocacy at the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, 2024 was a year of expanding partnerships for LEWAF.
Announcements
Learn the story behind Lady Ellen Women's Aid Foundation — from Ellen Pauline Kise's vision to our official establishment in 2014 and the impact we've made since.