Numbers can feel abstract.
$100,000 Canadian dollars. What does that actually mean?
In a major Canadian city, it might be a down payment on a condo. A year of tuition and living expenses. A car and some savings left over.
In Sierra Leone, in the hands of Freedom Tree and the community — it changes everything.
That amount, equivalent to about $80,000 USD at the time, was one of the early investments that helped Freedom Tree establish its presence in Sierra Leone. And here is what it did:
It helped build infrastructure where there was none. It brought skilled care to communities that had never had a trained birth attendant. It created a place where mothers could go — safely — and come home.
It saved lives that would otherwise have been lost.
The woman Tara met on one of her first trips — the one who had buried children, who was afraid to name her seventh baby — her life changed because of that investment. Her daughter is alive. Her daughter has a name. Her daughter has a future. Her daughter is Tara.
That is what $100,000 Canadian looks like when it lands somewhere it is truly needed.
You don't have to give $100,000. You don't have to give $1,000.
You just have to give something. Because in Sierra Leone, something means everything.