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Sierra Leone free education programme – ‘my scholars need quality education’

August 30, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 3

Andrew Keili: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 August 2018: Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education. Education is [Read More]

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More must be done for children suffering mental health problems in Sierra Leone

August 23, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 August 2018: Kona Seibure is the founder and CEO of Advocacy for Mental Health and Human Rights (AMHHR) –  a rights based grassroots mental health advocacy charity, dedicated to improving the lives of young people and persons living with mental health problems in Sierra Leone. Responding [Read More]

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Education is an investment for human and economic development – says president Bio

August 20, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 10

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 August 2018: After just five months of being elected president of Sierra Leone, Julius Maada Bio has today transformed his flagship manifesto pledge into reality. He has launched his ‘Free Quality School Education Programme (FQSEP)’. The programme will benefit over 1.5 million children across the country, [Read More]

Education and Health

Sierra Leone’s free education – Investing in people

August 17, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 August 2018: One of President Maada Bio’s signature policies, before, during and after the general elections has been the promise and delivery of a free education for all. Many people believe that education is a right and not a privilege. Many also believe that [Read More]

Education and Health

President Bio launches national tree planting as nation remembers mudslide victims

August 16, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 August 2018: Two days ago – 14th August 2018, the people of Sierra Leone remembered the devastating mudslide which took the lives of more than a thousand people in the mountain districts of the capital Freetown, following heavy rains. Most of the dead were buried alive [Read More]

Education and Health

New strain of Ebola in Sierra Leone – what should be done now?

July 31, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Alimamy Turay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 July 2018: The battle against the ebola virus should not only be staged as a responsive strategy, but should be looked at as a proactive or pre-emptive effort as well. That is, there should be two approaches running simultaneously in the war against this [Read More]

Education and Health

New strain of Ebola virus found in Bombali Sierra Leone – says ministry of health

July 27, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 July 2018: Sierra Leone’s ministry of health has confirmed that a new strain of Ebola virus – known as the Bombali Virus (BOMV), has been found in bats in the Bombali district of Sierra Leone. It’s not known whether the new strain can develop into the [Read More]

Education and Health

President Bio first 100 days promoting human development

July 22, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 July 2018: In his foreword to the Sierra Leone People’s Party Manifesto, 2018, as then Presidential Candidate,  President Julius Maada Bio writes that: “Our New Direction therefore offers the people of Sierra Leone a stark choice between the current ‘Business as Usual Status Quo’ of the [Read More]

Education and Health

Harnessing the power of water – Upholding human rights and dignity through sanitation

July 20, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 July 2018: Shamiso Kumbirai, a young engineer, is making a huge impact increasing awareness of the plight of lack of sanitation in communities. “In Grade 10 I was exposed to civil engineering. I loved the feeling of being onsite, but became keenly aware of the need [Read More]

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