Foray Marah
Social worker
Freetown,W
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Polling Assistant
National Electoral Commission
- Verifies the presence of each voter on the VR
- Instructs the voter to sign/thumb print the VR
- Verifies that the voter has not already voted (no trace of ink on the index finger)
Social Worker/Supervisor
Children Aid Network (CAN)
01.2023 - Current
- Responsible for receiving and evaluating reports of suspected child abused and neglect.
- Determine whether the reported information meets statutory and organizational requirements and decide on the urgency, which the organization must pay key attention to.
- Conducting family tracings
- In charge of conducting school assessments for enrolling abused and neglected children
- Conducting needs assessments for retired commercial sex workers
- Conducting needs assessment of victims of child abuse and neglect.
- Conducting needs assessment for victims of trafficking from rural areas to urban cities (women and children) who are involve in sex exploitation and forced labor.
- Identify psychosocial needs of retired commercial sex workers
- In charge of assessing and enrolling Technical Vocational Education Trainings for former commercial sex workers
- Identify psychosocial needs of victims of child abuse and neglect and share information with management.
- Educating community stakeholders about the dangers of child abuse and neglect.
- Providing psychosocial support for victims of child labor.
- Providing psychosocial support for commercial sex workers.
- Monitoring and evaluation of skill training programs of victims of sex exploitation and forced labor.
- Representing the organization in meetings with partners
- Responsible for the reintegration of victims of child abuse into their respective families and communities (child labor).
- Educating community stakeholders about the dangers of early child marriage.
- Coordinating and supervising field officers for effective achievement of project objectives.
- Monitoring income generating activities of victims of child abuse and sex exploitation.
- Writing weekly and monthly reports.
Social Worker
Anti-Bullying Initiative Sierra Leone
01.2020 - 12.2022
- Providing psychological support and counselling to victims thereby, empathy to listen to their stories, understand their feelings, and guide them to find positive ways of coping.
- Create a safe and private environment for victims to feel comfortable and willing to share their experiences.
- Establish a good relationship with the aggressors, and through empathy training and legal knowledge learning, motivate them to recognize the wrongfulness of bullying in schools and demonstrate the society's attitude of zero tolerance towards bullying.
- Assess the reasons why aggressors commit school bullying, help them change their cognition, emotion management and behaviour modification, and guide them to establish a correct outlook on the world, life and values.
- Assist in establishing and promoting the prevention and control mechanism of school bullying in schools.
- Organize training courses to enhance the awareness and ability of teaching staff to deal with the problem of bullying in schools, and to strengthen their sensitivity and coping skills
Registry Clark
Ministry Of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
01.2012 - 06.2012
- In charged of document management, record keeping, correspondence, protocol coordination, and providing logistical support to diplomats, ensuring smooth operation of the ministry's day-to-day activities related to international relations and foreign policy execution.
Education
Master of Science - Rural Development Studies
Njala University Sierra Leone
Makonde02-2025
Bachelor of Science - Social Work
Fourah Bay College University of Sierra Leone
Freetown, Mount Aureol01.2021
School leaving Testimonial Certificate -
Prince of Wales Secondary School
01.2025
National Diploma - International Relations
Milton Margai College of Education Science & Technology
Freetown, Sierra Leone01.2012
Single Subject Diploma - Management Theory & Practice, Human Resource Development, Business Management
Institute Of Commercial Management Uk (I.C.M.)
01.2014
Skills
- Oral and written English, listen actively, openly express ideas, provides feedback, persuade others, and confidently speak in public and good presentation skills, work well with others, supportive, cultural sensitiveness, motivate others, share credit, enforce policies
Timeline
Social Worker/Supervisor
Children Aid Network (CAN)
01.2023 - Current
Social Worker
Anti-Bullying Initiative Sierra Leone
01.2020 - 12.2022
Registry Clark
Ministry Of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
01.2012 - 06.2012
Polling Assistant
National Electoral Commission
Single Subject Diploma - Management Theory & Practice, Human Resource Development, Business Management
Institute Of Commercial Management Uk (I.C.M.)
Master of Science - Rural Development Studies
Njala University Sierra Leone
Bachelor of Science - Social Work
Fourah Bay College University of Sierra Leone
School leaving Testimonial Certificate -
Prince of Wales Secondary School
National Diploma - International Relations
Milton Margai College of Education Science & Technology