BACKGROUND Since our “Education for All” project in Kono District which advocated for inclusion of more girls in schools, we have been very active as a youth empowerment organization in advocating for Education in Sierra Leone. In 2021, we received support from the Global Campaign for Education (GCE) to conduct a research and we conducted […]
Western Area Peninsula Forest houses the Guma Water Catchment that provide pipe-borne water to the residents of Freetown. However, despite its importance, the Forest is diminishing rapidly as Global Forest Watch reports about 500,000 trees lost every year since 2009 due to deforestation as a result of logging, slash-and-burn farming, Etc. Other threats to managing […]
BACKGROUND The Western Area National Park with greenbelts along the Number 2 and Tokeh communities is the home of the Guma Water Dam. Guma Water Dam managed by the Guma Water Company is the only source of clean pipe borne water for the almost two million residents of Freetown City. However, due to the rapid […]
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 […]
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 […]