Thank You from Bagbo Community

[FoSL President]

Hi FoSl members, 

We wanted to share with you a final update and thank you from the Bagbo Prosperity Center on their recent project, which FoSL helped fund. Below is the thank you letter from the Peace Corps Volunteer, Brandon Gavel, stationed there, leading this project. We are lucky to have Brandon on Zoom for our upcoming Annual Meeting in July! 

More photos are available on our website! 

Dear Friends of Sierra Leone,

On behalf of everyone at the Bagbo Prosperity Center, I would like to extend our sincere gratitude for your generous financial support through both your Friends of Sierra Leone grant and your contribution to our Peace Corps Partnership Program (PCPP) grant. Your investment has been instrumental in helping transform this vision into a reality.

The Bagbo Prosperity Center was established to provide practical vocational and technical skills training to youth and adults in a rural community where educational and economic opportunities are limited. Our goal is to equip students with marketable skills that can lead to employment, entrepreneurship, and long-term economic resilience while strengthening the surrounding communities.

We are excited to share that in April we officially celebrated our Grand Opening Ceremony, marking an important milestone for the project. Since opening, the center has enrolled and trained 46 students during its first academic term. The enthusiasm from the community has been tremendous, and demand for our programs continues to grow.

Looking ahead, we expect to surpass our first 100 graduates by the end of the next term. During the center's first full year of operation, we anticipate training a few hundred students, creating opportunities for individuals to improve their livelihoods and contribute to the economic development of their communities.

None of this would have been possible without partners like Friends of Sierra Leone. Your confidence in this project has already begun producing tangible results, and your support will continue to have a lasting impact for years to come.

Thank you once again for believing in our vision and for helping make the Bagbo Prosperity Center a place where opportunity, hope, and prosperity can grow.

With sincere appreciation,

Brandon Gavel
Peace Corps Volunteer (2024–2026)
Bagbo Prosperity Center Project Lead