Our Stories

Freedom Tree is building schools in Sierra Leone giving hundreds of children access to quality education in Africa. Through charitable giving in Canada, classrooms are rising in communities that never had them. Children's education in Sierra Leone is changing lives — and you can be part of it.

Freedom Tree's schools in Sierra Leone educate 300 children every single month and graduate thousands every year. Children's education in Africa is the longest investment with the highest return. When a child learns, their whole community benefits for generations. 

Sierra Leone has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. These 10 facts about maternal health in Africa will change how you see the crisis and what you can do about it.

Calgary youth enrolled in Freedom Tree's Global Initiatives Program are engaging with real civic issues — from senior loneliness in Canada to global warming — and choosing to act. 

Freedom Tree's community maternal health program in Sierra Leone is bringing men into conversations about safe childbirth — and the results are transforming communities. Gender inclusive maternal health advocacy saves more lives. When men show up for mothers, everything changes.

Sierra Leone community values and Indigenous wisdom in Canada share a deep reverence for life, elders, and the wellbeing of mothers. Freedom Tree honors these values in every community it partners with. 

BIPOC and Indigenous maternal health in Alberta is shaped by systemic barriers and limited culturally safe care. Freedom Tree's Bridging the Gap program provides hospital advocacy, doula access, postpartum support and anti-racism education so every mother receives the compassionate care she deserves

Freedom Tree's Global Initiatives Program in Calgary Alberta is turning teenagers into global citizens and community leaders. Through civic education and hands-on engagement with real world issues, youth at the Boys and Girls Club of Alberta are discovering their power to create change.

A young Indigenous woman navigating family challenges and maternal health fears in her own community discovers Freedom Tree and reaches beyond her own pain to help others in Sierra Leone. 

Black maternal health in Alberta is shaped by systemic racism in healthcare that too many women experience and too few people talk about. Juliet's story of giving birth in Calgary exposes the cold reality of racialized maternal care and why Freedom Tree's Bridging the Gap program exists so no BIPOC

Sierra Leone has one of the world’s highest maternal mortality rates — but Freedom Tree is changing that. Through birthing clinics, skilled midwife training, and community maternal health programs, preventable maternal deaths are being stopped. The crisis is urgent.

Every two minutes a woman dies in childbirth somewhere in the world. In Sierra Leone, maternal mortality remains a devastating crisis. Freedom Tree’s birthing clinics are proving that safe delivery in developing countries is possible — with trained midwives, clean facilities, and your support.