Sierra Leone Social Aid Volunteers (SLSAV) was founded in 2008 by aid workers from the ‘United Nations System and International Charity Organizations’ of like minds.  SLSAV’s promote, advocate and support hard to reach children, adolescents, youths, women and the physically challenged people in marginalized communities, often cut-off from government social services, human right protection and mainstream humanitarian aid, and short–long term development trajectories. SLSAV is a legal registered National Non-governmental organization and has several members with civil society organisations coalition, networks and forums in and out of sierra Leone. It has more than a decade of experience in structural poverty reduction, humanitarian, development and emergency aid. Their activities vary from programme implementation to capacity building and technical assistance, but are all based on the vision that positive volunteerism can create change in partnership with state and non-state actors from different parts of society.

SLSAV currently operates in the entire North-West, North-East and Western Region (s) in Sierra Leone, providing mainstream rural development in areas of Healthcare, Water and Sanitation, Education, Governance and Social Protection programme assistance, care and maintenance and human rights, with an approximately 500,000 Thousand Dollars and at 25,000 beneficiaries reached annul with service deliveries and capacity building drive through pioneer in Results Based Management and Human Rights Based to Programming approaches. Their recent track record contains programs in life savings, child  survival and development  in health programmes, such as promoting maternal and childcare utilization, public health (immunization, malaria, HIV/Aids, health facilities utilization) campaigns, social mobilization and community engagement on health seeking behavior and hygiene practices, provision of water and sanitation (soft & hard wares) in health facilities, schools, communities, public health emergencies response; and sexual and reproductive health uptakes. Governance and Accountability programmes includes-strengthening community accountability for improved services delivery, building local capacity, confidence and trust in state and non-state institutions, strengthening community action plans and deliveries, promote decentralization initiative and local governance, including social protection towards promoting social safety nets and education in areas of formal and non-formal schooling.