Enable the Children (ETC) is a team of local and expatriate staff who have provided Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy, care, and support services to over 1,000 children living with disabilities in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Enable The Children
In Sierra Leone, widespread cultural misunderstanding of disability, complicated by the lack of health care or other public support services, makes children living with physical and mental disabilities some of the world’s most vulnerable children.
Sponsor a special needs child in Sierra Leone
Geoff and Carrie Jo Cain
Carrie Jo Cain, who grew up in Sierra Leone, manages several Child and Maternal Health programs for World Hope, including Helping Babies Breathe, Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS), and a Comprehensive Program for Ebola Survivors. Carrie Jo was instrumental in World Hope’s response to the Ebola crisis, designing a culturally-appropriate burial program that ultimately helped curb the spread of the disease.
Her work with CHAMPS involves improving antenatal care, mentoring midwives, and addressing malnutrition recognition, treatment, and prevention.
Geoff and Carrie Jo are also starting a widow’s project to provide ways for widows to support themselves in the challenging economy of Sierra Leone. Geoff is working with Bakkar, a successful Sierra Leonian businessman who cares deeply for widows. The project will support individualized counseling, training, and economic assistance and establish a personalized plan to give widows and their families a foundation for a new start.
In addition to the widow’s project, Geoff works with World Hope in many roles making Carrie Jo’s and others’ work possible.
We have a team traveling to Sierra Leone
during January - February 2025
to host the annual
Youth and Missionary Retreats
and to spend time with our Mission Partners.
We could use your support!
Select “Sierra Leone Mission Trip”
Want to go on the 2025 trip?
Application Deadline October 15th!
