The Youth Action for Relentless Development Organization- Sierra Leone (YARDO-SL) is a youth empowerment agency working on four (4) areas of intervention with a biased focus on Environmental Protection, with support from AFR100 and #FreetowntheTreeTown, the organization planted 100,000 trees at Tokeh and York communities in the Western Rural District of Sierra Leone. The purpose […]
Today, the High Commission of India to Sierra Leone donated 75 trees to support the #FreetownTheTreeTown Campaign, which seeks to plant 1 million trees and raise awareness against indiscriminate deforestation in the Western Area Peninsula Forest Reserve. The donation comes as part of the Commission’s commemoration of the 75th independence anniversary of the Republic […]
In a work visit to Kwama Village, the YARDO-SL Team engaged various stakeholders through focus group discussions and personal interviews to investigate the challenges of the community through a need base assessment. As a result of the mudslide that happened in Freetown on 14th August, 2017 that claimed over 1,000 lives and destroyed hundreds of […]
The Guma Valley Water Dam is the main source of water supply for the city of Freetown. The Dam was built in the early 1960s and is situated within the Forest Reserve of the Western Area, approximately 13 kilometers from the central business district of Freetown. The Dam was initially designed to provide water […]
In Commemoration of Sierra Leone’s 60th Independence Anniversary, the Global Youth Network for Peace with support from YARDOSL, conveyed young leaders from across the country to take part in the first-ever National Youth Round-table Dialogue on the State of Youths in Sierra Leone. Issues affecting youths were discussed, ranging from entrepreneurship, education, technology, etc. […]