Who We Are
The Saint Lawrence Foundation is a philanthropic non-profit organization whose purpose is to support social, educational, and humanitarian activities in the poorest communities of the world.
Currently, the Foundation is supporting the University of Makeni in Sierra Leone, a Northwestern African Country that is slowly recovering from a ravaging civil war. The majority of the infrastructures were leveled to the ground and it will take years to rebuild them completely. Education is one of the most serious issues,because of the lack of schools, didactic material and teachers.
The target of the Saint Lawrence Foundation in Sierra Leone is to create the conditions necessary to offer a good education to the upcoming generations, in order to train new leaders who will forge a path for their country away from poverty, corruption, and war.
Currently, the Foundation is supporting the University of Makeni in Sierra Leone, a Northwestern African Country that is slowly recovering from a ravaging civil war. The majority of the infrastructures were leveled to the ground and it will take years to rebuild them completely. Education is one of the most serious issues,because of the lack of schools, didactic material and teachers.
The target of the Saint Lawrence Foundation in Sierra Leone is to create the conditions necessary to offer a good education to the upcoming generations, in order to train new leaders who will forge a path for their country away from poverty, corruption, and war.
Our Target
Our target is to help the development of local communities through continuous support to the Makeni University (UNIMAK). Our support was instrumental to UNIMAK being granted full Government accreditation as the Country’s first private University in 2009.
Project's main tasks are:
Project's main tasks are:
- Establishing a Faculty of Agricolture
- Implementing agricultural development activities in the local communities to provide sustainable livelihood and to enhance food supply security
- Promoting social entrepreneurship to meet the basic needs of local communities
- Expanding University infrastructures according to a well defined plan
- Starting the first textile business through the development of local cotton cultivation and other social business