How you can help

HAPPY is a Sierra Leone non-profit charity.

We are led by, and for, people living in Sierra Leone. Your donations help us to support vulnerable kids.

Where your donation goes

Thanks to donations we are able to make a major impact on the lives of the children and adolescents we support.

Your donations allow us to support HIV+ children and adolescents:

• Access to medication. Our help is essential when they cannot go to hospital, pay for medication, or otherwise receive their medication on time. We work on their behalf to contact clinics and get their medication. During the pandemic, when hospitals were under quarantine, we took medication to them in their communities.

• Adherence counselling. We support kids taking antiretroviral tablets – which is for life. We check on them at home to make sure they are taking their medication and not missing doses.

• Psychosocial support. We take them on trips and get them access to libraries including audio visual materials. Five-year-olds and younger children can use playrooms that have early childhood development resources.

• Advocacy for early detection. This includes visiting homes to carry out family-based HIV testing for a household.

• Menstruation. We offer menstrual hygiene kits and education about menstrual hygiene management.

• X-rays. Their weak immune systems mean they are at risk of getting malaria, diarrhoea and other opportunistic infections. We pay for chest X-rays to diagnose health problems.

• Education support. We provide school materials and sometimes extra learning support. We also offer lunch and a transport allowance for their caregivers. Depending on our funds, we try to provide food for malnourished children; we also connect with and refer caregivers to hospital.

We make the most of all the donations we receive. For example, GBP£30 (British pound sterling) or USD$40 can support a child for about three months.

Read more about what we do.