Mudslide Disaster Relief Project Project status: completed Project location: Regent, Freetown. Project Summary: In 14th August 2017, Sierra Leone was hit by a devastating disaster that claimed almost a thousand lives and destroyed billions worth of property. The Mudslide left those victims still alive totally empty. No housing, no clothing and some with no one […]
Nonviolence Electoral Campaign Project status: completed Project locations: Freetown, Moyamba, Bo and Kambia. Project Summary: In a bid to discourage violence and political intimidation during the 2018 elections in Sierra Leone, YARDO-SL as a youth led organization working with young people committed to making sure thousands of young people across the country were positively impacted […]
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In early September this year, the President declared tuition-free education for all primary and secondary school kids attending government-owned or sponsored schools across the country.
This very important landmark declaration is aimed to boost education and empower citizens as promised in the government’s manifesto.
Project status: completed. Locations: Constituency 67, 68, 69, 70,71, All in the portloko district. Project Summary: As an implementing partner for Innovation for Poverty Action, YARDO-SL was part of the team that carried this four-week project. This project entails the interviewing of voters as well as political aspirants before, during and after the March 2018 […]
Are Sierra Leone Parliamentarians really ‘Servants of the People’? Commentary by Ahmid C Jalloh Executive Director, YARDO-SL. Sierra Leone is one of the least developed countries in the world. Two-Thirds of its citizens live on a dollar a day or less. The per capita GNI is an estimated $406. Parliamentarians though, don’t seem to be […]