AWE Media Sierra Leone

Inspired By SLAJ: It all started on the first day of the recent national three-day lockdown authorized by the Government of Sierra Leone to combat the spread of COVID-19 in the country, when AYV TV reporter Ransford Metzger interviewed the Chief of Kroo Bay live from the community. The Chief lamented that the community lacked hand washing buckets and food. The President of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ), Ahmed Sahid Nasralla, was at the AYV TV studios being interviewed by Amadu Lamrana Bah when Ransford’s report came in. Nasralla was touched by the cry of the Kroo Bay Chief, and so after his interview he swiftly moved to the community with his Secretary General, Mohamed Asmieu Bah, and donated 15 veronica buckets and bowls through the Chief and the Councilor and appealed to well-meaning individuals and organisations to come to the aid of Kroo Bay and other deprived and vulnerable communities in the country. Meanwhile, the Chairman Pikin Bizness, Adonis Abboud- who i...