…WIMSAL Must Go Beyond Statements The launch of WIMSAL’s new safeguarding policy is welcome, but as a graduate with a bachelor’s degree in mass communication from Fourah Bay College and a woman working in Sierra Leone’s media space, I am left asking a more uncomfortable question: what exactly does “action” mean if we are unwilling […]
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Sierra Leone has highlighted the importance of strengthening national systems for tracking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) financing as a critical means of accelerating progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6), which seeks to ensure the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. Speaking during a session on monitoring SDG 6
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A Sierra Leone woman got the attention of the president when she broke a world record. Mary Yongai became a local celebrity when she performed the most cosmetic makeovers in 24 hours (one artist). The 26-year-old gave beauty transformations to a total of 111 women when she took on the challenge in Freetown, Western Area, Sierra
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Azerbaijan has already taken on the responsibility of addressing humanitarian issues arising from climate disruptions, and I believe the country will continue to defend climate issues integrated with peace and security during COP29 Kenyeh Laura Barlay, Sierra Leone’s minister of Planning and Economic Development, believes that Azerbaijan will continue to defend climate issues integrated into
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Mayor of the Municipality of Freetown in Sierra Leone, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, has been described as a powerful woman who has improved her city in many ways and made it a pioneer in several areas, according to the German Africa Foundation who describes her as an “inspiration.” it said in just six years, she had introduced models of sustainability
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MSF is working to ensure sustainable access to clean water in a country where more than half the population uses unsafe water sources like rivers and unprotected wells. Health care is more than access to medicine and medical personnel. Clean drinking water and hygiene practices play an integral role in promoting and sustaining people’s overall
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Three key themes emerged from the findings: the need for teacher comfort in discussing puberty, the utility of a teacher’s guide for delivering this content, and the various system and resource constraints that hinder effective implementation. A recent study published in Frontiers in Education has underscored the critical importance of providing young people with adequate
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Countries that have not been traditionally active in international nurse recruitment are also showing increased demand for overseas-trained nurses, including Finland as well as Scotland, where the government announced an allocation of £4.5 million to support active international recruitment of nurses as part of the overall plan for pandemic recovery and renewal Click on photo
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A new book by visual artist Ngadi Smart chronicles the effects of water poverty on communities across the West African country where around half of the population lives without access to clean water. By Daphne Chouliaraki Milner Water is life. And life is water. In Sierra Leone, communities across the country know this to be
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The Global Mercy departed the country in June after spending the previous ten months performing 1,979 life-changing surgeries for 1,728 patients and training 145 healthcare professionals on board in that time. The world’s largest civilian hospital ship, the Global Mercy™, was welcomed back to Freetown yesterday in a partnership between international charity Mercy Ships (www.MercyShips.org) and the Government of
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