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Created in 1980, Inter Aide is a French leading humanitarian organization specialized in the implementation of programs that aim to promote access for the most vulnerable to development. The programs respond to specific and vital needs in order to reinforce the capacities of vulnerable populations to allow them to participate in improving living conditions in their communities. Inter Aide currently has about 60 programs implemented in 8 countries: Haiti, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Sierra Leone, Malawi, and Mozambique, India and the Philippines in rural and urban areas.

General Description of GOAL’s work in Sierra Leone GOAL has been working in Sierra Leone since 1999, and is currently implementing Integrated Child and Youth Welfare Programmes and Urban WASH/Health/nutrition programmes in Freetown and a GOAL Sierra Leone’s Disadvantaged Children and Youths’ Programme began in 1999 to address the needs and rights of street children and young commercial sex workers in Freetown. The aim was to meet their basic needs of shelter, food and non-formal education, as well as providing alternative life choices.