Meeting

Recently members of the national monitoring committee for the West Africa Power Pool (WAPP) energy project, together with officials of TRANSCO-CLSG met with residents of Tilorma Community in Kenema District.

Tilorma community is one of the communities to be affected by the WAPP energy project to be implemented by TRANSCO-CLSG, in this regard the visit to the community by both Government and TRANSCO staff was to update residents on how far the project implementation process is and benefit they stand to gain, after its completion.

Receiving the team, community head Boima Swarray said the initiative by ECOWAS member states to establish a West Africa Power Pool energy project, which will contribute to economic growth, especially for residents in rural communities who do not have access to electricity.

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As Government and TRANSCO- CLSG dialogue with Kenema District on regional energy, members of the Kenema District monitoring committee on Wednesday elected Alice Koroma as the Chair for the District Monitoring Committee.

Alice Koroma is the Regional Director, East for the Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender and Children’s Affairs and a member of the district monitoring committee that will monitor project activities as contractors by TRANSCO-CLSG carry out technical and infrastructure work.

During the two-day local committee meeting, representatives from the various sectors in the Kenema district administration, including representatives from the chiefdoms to be affected during the West African Power Pool (WAPP) energy project to be implemented by TRANSCO- CLSG converged at Paloma conference room in Kenema.

The Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender and Children’s Affairs (MSWGCA) with support from Decentralization Services Delivery Project (DSDP) support to Kenema District Council has ended a-two day training of social workers and other partners in the sixteen chiefdoms of Kenema district on the Anti- Human Trafficking Act 2005.

A facilitator who is also the Senior Social Services Officer Trafficking in Persons-Eastern Region, Vandy Bawoh said the training was meant to upgrade the social service workers to be able to distinguish trafficking cases from other protection matters. He said that at the end of the training, participants would be able to identify victims in their respective chiefdoms and to make appropriate referrals.
He called on participants to take the training with the seriousness it deserves and to put into practice whatever knowledge they acquire from the training.