Home Leone's an extraordinary entrepreneurial charity building a new village in Sierra Leone relocating slum dwellers. We need financial management help, hands on to produce monthly management accounts. Fun team, huge impact.
We need you to work with Chief Executive, who is a Chartered Accountant by background, to produce monthly accounts and help us build budgetary procedures. We use Xero software and are in multiple sectors. It’s really interesting, from running a school to a brick factory, housing association to international teams.
A volunteer has already set up all the system and accounting. Day to day you will work with the finance team (2 people in SL) and the charity managers and trustees. Working from home works well. The CEO is based in Bishops Waltham (Hampshire). It may be helpful and of interest to visit Sierra Leone at some point.
When we find the larger funding, we want higher capability in Sierra Leone, but in these times we can’t afford that so at present its more hands on with a goal to become less so.
Specifically we need help with:
We are looking for a volunteer who:
Skills
Working with social entrepreneurs, facing challenging perspectives and worldviews and being part of something transforming the lives of some of the worlds poorest, makes life worth the living. With your help we will be able to build a financial platform on which much can be built.
Nearly 1 million people in Freetown, Sierra Leone, live in extremely hazardous and danger prone areas. Communities are acutely vulnerable to flooding, mudslides, loss of livelihoods, poor health outcomes, loss of property and assets. These vulnerabilities lead to aid dependency and reduced resilience. Places where death comes early.
Home Leone developed a holistic, sustainable solution. This Christian based charity bought 25 acres of land and has already built 70 low-cost homes (circa £6,000 per unit), 10 classrooms and opened a primary school, established 5 businesses, done microloans and more. Currently the first 200+ people of 2,000+ have relocated. Detailed research and cultural understanding led to a 7-pillar approach being low-cost(affordable) housing, livelihood (micro loans and employment), power, water, education, healthcare and behaviour change through training, adult education and personal development.
We are ready to expand once the finance is raised but we do need stronger and regular financial systems and management reporting so could really use your help.
