Women across Sierra Leone are driving change—from clinics to farms to community leadership. This International Women’s Day, Healey International Relief Foundation highlights partnerships strengthening maternal health, supporting women farmers, and empowering women-led organizations so women and girls can live healthier, safer, and more hopeful lives.
In Sierra Leone, epilepsy is often hidden behind stigma and silence, leaving thousands without treatment. Through new partnerships and hands-on training for health workers and community leaders, a growing movement is replacing myths with knowledge and fear with understanding—reshaping how epilepsy is recognized, treated, and supported district by district.
In January 2026, Healey International Relief Foundation and partners strengthened maternal and newborn care across Sierra Leone through hands-on training in early detection, lifesaving clinical skills, and respectful care—investing in midwives and frontline providers to protect mothers and babies when it matters most.
Explore Healey International Relief Foundation’s 2025 impact in Sierra Leone and our 2026 priorities advancing maternal health, NCD care, and health systems strengthening.
Epilepsy can be managed but in Sierra Leone, thousands of men, women and children still face a life interrupted by seizures, stigma and lack of care. Though partnership with the Epilepsy Association of Sierra Leone, ROW Foundation and HIRF
From the very beginning, women have been at the heart of HIRF’s mission in Sierra
HIRF is committed to supporting women farmers in Sierra Leone. Read our April blog describing our latest efforts.
In late 2022 Healey International Relief Foundation (HealeyIRF) was awarded a U.S. Agency for International
In Sierra Leone, 65% of women involved in petty trading are either single parents or
March 2021 There are many ways to put gratitude into practice, but the children at