When a camera was placed in the hands of a student at the National School for the Deaf in Freetown, it represented more than a new piece of equipment. For the students expected to learn how to use it, the camera could become a new language — a way to document their lives, capture their […]
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The Sierra Leone Correctional Service’s (SLCS) renewed effort to establish stronger partnerships with the University of Sierra Leone, the University of Makeni and other educational institutions could mark an important stage in the country’s transition from a conventional prison system towards a genuinely rehabilitative correctional model. Speaking at the Government of Sierra Leone’s weekly press
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For Caritas Freetown, the growing environmental pressures facing Sierra Leone are no longer issues that can be left to government agencies or environmental specialists alone. The flooding experienced in Freetown and other communities, alongside deforestation, coastal erosion, polluted waterways, poor waste disposal and destructive mining, is increasingly forcing ordinary citizens to confront the consequences of
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