AWE Media Sierra Leone

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  A recent study conducted by this writer indicates that the majority of jelly coconut traders in Makeni are Female between the age brackets of 18-38 years.  Unlike the male jelly sellers who on a daily basis, hawk along the central business area of the municipality pushing wheelbarrows to sell coconuts, women carry on their head at least one hundred coconuts in either trays or large basins hawking along several areas in the Northern city. This reality inflicts much body pain on the female jelly coconut retailers who mostly have to sell for at least eight hours a day and buy cooking condiments to prepare meals for their families at the expense of their health which prompted me to take my microphone to some of them to let them tell their stories.  Their revelations about why and how they took up selling jelly coconut, the banes they undergo and its relevance are shocking. 38-year-old Kamathor Sesay who was born and raised at the Masongbo community in Bombali Dis...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson   With funds from multiple donors including the European Union, Irish Aid and the World Bank and the Government of Sierra Leone, the Free Education Project Secretariat, yesterday successfully organized a Training of Trainers clinic for Grievances Redress Mechanism committee members in the Northern East Region.  Hosted at the Sierra Leone Teachers Union hall in Makeni city, the day’s training brought together representatives from Bombali, Falaba, Koinadugu and Tonkolili Districts attached at several government and non-governmental organizations, as well as Ministries, Agencies and Departments such as District Councils, Ministry of Basic and Secondary School Education, Teaching Service Commission, the Anti-Corruption Commission, Family Support Units, Ministry Social Welfare Gender and Children’s Affairs among others servings as members of the Grievance Redress Mechanism committees in their respective districts that all benefited from the clinic. One of the facili...