Yesterday, Wednesday 16th September, Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr of Freetown City Council (FCC) and Chairman Kasho J Holland Cole Western Area District Council (WARD-C) officially signed a Memorandum of Understanding to agree to work together in specified areas of urban planning and development, and service delivery. The signing took place at the WARD-C conference hall at […]
If you passed by Congo Cross Bridge today, you would have seen our sanitation team cleaning the environs, particularly the illegal dumpsite that had been created there. Our team, which comprised the Councillors of the Sanitation committee, sanitary inspectors, MET police tricycle youth groups and public space cleaning monitors, also engaged the surrounding informal community
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FCC has been able to secure some funds for development in 30 of the 48 wards (to be randomly selected) and we want to engage directly with you, our residents, about how you want to use those funds to meet needs in your localities. In light of the on-going COVID-19 pandemic, we will start this
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This week, we ended phase two of our 2020 #FloodMitigation activities! In this phase, 21 of our 48 wards benefitted and we cleared 56 locations prone to flooding during heavy rains! Thank you to our partners EU, Irish Aid, RSLAF, CRS and Caritas for helping us clear drains, bridges, culverts and other waterways and immediately
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Today, our sanitation teams made up of sanitary inspectors, tricycle operators and Metropolitan Officers, were in the east of the city engaging traders and shop owners on the need to keep their surroundings clean. The teams visited shops and petty traders between Up Gun and Ferry Junction, along Bai Bureh Road, which is probably the
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Yesterday, a delegation from the Embassy of China donated 20,000 face masks to FCC on behalf of the Hefei City Municipal Government in the People’s Republic of China.The support comes as part of the China’s support to Sierra Leone in the fight against the Coronavirus Disease.The donation was made to Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr by the
Today, GOAL handed over one vacuum truck and two motorcycles to Freetown City Council as part the Faecal Sludge Management Project. The vacuum truck and motorcycles will support FCC in achieving its #TransformFreetown sanitation target which, in part, aims to increase safe disposal of liquid waste from 6% to 60%.The truck will be leased to
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Today, FCC, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and NACOVERC, launched the Armed Forces Training Centre (AFTC) Community Care Centre (CCC) at Benguema, Waterloo. The launch was made official by a symbolic ribbon-cutting ceremony by Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr and Mr Abdul-Rahman Fofanah, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health in the presence of Councillors
We are pleased to have directly received this technical note from the International Monetary Fund on their views on the property tax reform. Great to see that the IMF expert view is supportive. FCC is committed to #TransformFreetown #FurtherTogether
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FREETONIANS PLANT TREES ON WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY Pelumi, an 8 a year-old who picked up a seedling from our tree giveaway at Aberdeen on World Environment Day, was excited to take what he has been learning about plants and the environment outside the classroom!He joins FCC and many other Freetonians on our journey to plant
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