Volunteer work Cultural & free time Learning activities Accommodation & food In country staff Volunteer work Volunteer work in both districts The main fields where the volunteers are needed in this region are the following:          Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) and School Led Total Sanitation (SLTS). Various development partners and donors have given huge sums of money to provide sanitation facilities in the rural communities. Unfortunately, these projects have failed to improve the sanitary habits  of the majority of the populace, because of lack of ownership and sustainability issues. The volunteers will have the role to promote healthy practices and practices related to  hygiene in these communities          Working with children and youngsters with fewer opportunities. About 300,000 of primary school age children are still out of school. The situation is  serious with these children who are out of shool because they are likely to be living away from their biological mothers, in large (polygamous) families, orphans, internally trafficked, child brides/ mothers or disabled. The findings also show that poverty, cost of schooling, child labour, low value placed on education, illiterate parents (vicious cycle), death of parent(s), lack of nearby school, pregnancy, exploitation by relatives, poor quality of education, peer pressure, lack of law enforcement are factors responsible for school age children to be out of school          Identify allies and targets for  effective implementation of the strategy. Cultural & free time in both districts The cultural life in the two districts (Kenema and Kono ) is diverse, but with some commonality like the Christian and Muslim holidays – these are celebrated and observed together. Such holidays includes Christmas, Easter, Eud-du- Fitri, Eud- du – Allah and Ramadam. Other cultural activities are naming ceremonies, initiation into secret societies like Poro and Bondo. Kono and Kenema are metropolitan towns now named as Cities by the government of Sierra Leone. There are schools; colleges; a Polytechnic college in Kenema, a constituent college of Njala University; vocational training centres in Kono. Kenema has a lot of pubs and entertainment centres prominent among them are the Capitol, Rendevouz , M and M; these centers serve both as entertainment and meeting places for friends especially at night.   Learning activities in both districts Some of the learning activities to be mentioned: Learning to work with children and youngsters with fewer opportunities in centers for non-formal education. Also, our organization is working in partnership with the Mother’s Club, Child Parliament, School Management Committee etc. There are very experienced in local issues and they will share their experience with volunteers and will provide briefings on culture and traditions. The activities will approach also issues that affect directly the youngsters lives, issues like human rights; community mobilization; project management , peace and conflict, governance and democracy; development and social work. Accomodation & food in both districts It is a tradition that international volunteers should be hosted in the local communities where they will also work. Our offices in both districts have rooms to accomodate guests. We also have vehicles and motorbikes which can transport volunteers to project sites in both Kon and Kenema District. The vlunteers will work with our Field Officers (Outreach Workers) in the project communities. The organization will provide the food for volunteers. The organization will also support the volunteers with the procedures required for obtaining the visa. In county staff James Ebube EVS country coordinator chiddo3000@yahoo.com   CHIDO has well equipped offices in Kenema, Kailahun and Kono Districts. The coordinators of CHIDO projects are: Ms Abie Joy Suale – responsible with the Overall Management and Coordination of CHIDO programme and activities; James Ebube - In charge of all programme operations including Planning, Design, Implementation and Management; Victor Momoh – responsible with Fund Raising, Project Design, Field Staff Coordination and support to Programme Manager The organization has also Field Officers in the communities where the organization works with volunteers responsible with supporting them in their activities.