Our Skills Training & Tailoring Program

Overview of our Sewing Center
Overview of our Sewing Center
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We share our base in Freetown with one of our partner organizations: Orthotics Rehabilitation and Medical Services – Sierra Leone (ORMS). Africa Surgery funds three educational programs directed by ORMS. One of them is the Skills Training in Tailoring Program. Currently counting over fifty students, it must run morning and afternoon classes, five days a week, to accommodate them all. Most of the students are impoverished local young women, with a few young men. They pay a nominal registration fee, to learn, and purchase the supplies needed to sew a uniform.

Mothers of babies are not excluded, leaving their babies to sleep on blankets, on the floor, for most of the class duration.
Mothers of babies are not excluded, leaving their babies to sleep on blankets, on the floor, for most of the class duration.
Africa Surgery is providing sewing machines and other supplies, and pays the registration fee for disabled students. Among them, we have two young ladies affected by albinism, a disability in Sierra Leone. The intense West African sun causes many victims of albinism to develop skin lesions which can turn into skin cancer and painfully shorten their lives.
Africa Surgery is providing sewing machines and other supplies, and pays the registration fee for disabled students. Among them, we have two young ladies affected by albinism, a disability in Sierra Leone. The intense West African sun causes many victims of albinism to develop skin lesions which can turn into skin cancer and painfully shorten their lives.
Albinism often affects a victim’s eyes. Therefore, Africa Surgery provides reading glasses to students who need them.
Albinism often affects a victim’s eyes. Therefore, Africa Surgery provides reading glasses to students who need them.
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