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SLRS Content Management Group

This group is focused on building content for the Sierra Leone Resilience system and Content Management within Sierra Leone

Members

davidmc foday haddi daramy Hank Rappaport Kathy Gilbeaux mdmcdonald MDMcDonald_me_com
Obilia Kamara Paulshido

Email address for group

slrs_content_management@m.resiliencesystem.org

MSWGCA Schools Social Workers and partners on Anti Human trafficking act

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.

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WAAPP SaLone attains highest World Bank rating

The West Africa Agriculture Productivity Programme (WAAPP) Sierra Leone has been rated “satisfactory” by the World Bank at a regional wrap up summit in Ghana.
This is the highest rating in the score sheet of the World Bank with regards the implementation of WAAPP at the country level. The rating is pegged at the achievement of key deliverables set by the Bank, the project and its partners in the previous country support mission which is held half yearly.

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ICCF to commence the ‘Road to June’ Campaign

The I Care Children’s Foundation (ICCF) in Sierra Leone will commence a ‘road to June’ campaign in June this year.

The campaign, which will start from the 6th to the 16th of June will be geared towards reaching out to more needy children and creating an atmosphere conducive for every child in the country.
Mohamed Bah, a Sierra Leonean freelance journalist and poet is the founder and national coordinator of ICCF in Sierra Leone. He told Awoko last Friday that the campaign will follow the official launch of the foundation with the initiative to help and protect the disadvantaged children in the country.

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Lebanon to construct educational complex in Bo City

Vice President Victor Bockarie Foh has warmly welcomed the decision of the President of the Lebanese Parliament, Mr. Nabih Berri to build an educational complex in Bo City, said the Ambassador of Lebanon to Sierra Leone, Nidal Yehya.

The Lebanon envoy further added that the President of the Lebanese Parliament, Mr. Nabih Berri was conceived in Bo 77 years ago.
“Vice President Foh instructed the New Honorary Consul of Sierra Leone in Lebanon, Mr. Donald El Abed to implement these matters and to facilitate the way for new big investors to come to Sierra Leone and to invite the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Lebanon to come to Sierra Leone.”

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JICA boosts District Health Team

To further improve on health care service delivery in the country, the Japanese International Coordinating Agency (JICA) completed the construction of an administrative and storage facility at the Cline Town health facility.

At a short but impressive handing over ceremony of the two structures, the Chairman for the Committee on Health at the Freetown City Council (FCC), Councillor Mohamed Turay commended JICA for coming to the aid of the Western Area District Health Management Team (DHMT) to provide staff with a proper storage facility and an administrative block which will allow health personnel do their work in a more conducive environment.

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African Monkeys Caught Eating Bats For the First Time

Researchers working in Africa are the first to observe monkeys preying on bats. The unusual behavior, which may have something to do with loss of habitat, could explain how dangerous diseases such as Ebola spread among species—and eventually to humans.

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Resilient Health Systems Can Prevent and Contain Pandemics

Resilience is one of those buzzwords that every so often captures the hearts and minds of development practitioners. The importance of this particular term, though, becomes all too clear as the world faces an increasing number of humanitarian crises, including outbreaks that can turn into pandemics.

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Freetown Rotary Club lights FSSG Boarder

During the dry season, the country normally faces electricity crisis due to inadequate water in the Bum Buna hydro dam, according to many experts, and electricity is one of the key facilities for one to progress in his or her studies.

The Freetown Rotary Club has come to the rescue of the Freetown Secondary School for Girls (FSSG) border by installing solar power on the entire border area so that pupils and staff might enjoy during and after the dry season.

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World Health Organisation’s Dr Margaret Chan warns ‘world is not prepared to cope’ with surge in pandemics

WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan last night addressed the World Health Assembly, a gathering of the world’s leading health practitioners and policy makers.

Her message was blunt.

“Let me give you a stern warning. What we are seeing now looks more and more like a dramatic resurgence of the threat from emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. The world is not prepared to cope.

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Kenyan research institute to launch Ebola vaccine trial in July

An Ebola clinical vaccine trial will be launched this July by the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), the Standard Digital of Kenya reports.

According to Senior Deputy Director of the KEMRI Walter Reed project, Dr Fredric Sawe, the effort by KEMRI is meant to restore the West African region which was worst hit by the deadly Ebola virus.

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