Today, FCC provided supplementary food support to eight quarantine homes, with support from GOAL and CARE. A total of 142 people, who live in those homes, benefitted from the support. This support is meant to supplement the provision by central government so that affected residents have enough to eat until the end of their quarantine […]
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On Friday April 24, 2020, FCC started work to fix the sewage system at the King Jimmy Bridge, between Connaught Hospital and the King Jimmy Market. Over the last 5 years, residents who live and work around the King Jimmy environs, and those that regularly travel through that route, have been regularly inconvenienced by the […]
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Our community engagement continues and today we put the spotlight on Ward 435, whose Councillor is Ibrahim Kiss Turay. Today his team visited parts of New England (Bamba Water, Fatu Shop and Bike Parking Gron). Councillor Kiss Turay provided each of his WDCs with two masks, he provided veronica buckets at various stations and had […]
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Our Councillors and Ward Development Committee members have been engaging their communities throughout this week on the Coronavirus Disease! Our Councillors and Ward Development Committee members have been engaging their communities throughout this week on the Coronavirus Disease! Community engagement is a key component of FCC’s COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Plan and our aim is […]
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Today, FCC turned the sod on the construction of a nursery center for pre-school children at the Congo Water Market! This is the first step to realizing one of the campaign promises of Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, which will give children of market women a head start in their education. Currently, many pre-school children spend time […]
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Yesterday, FCC launched a project to start the rehabilitation of drainages in 5 target communities including Caulker Street, Melon Street, Bottom Oku, Congo Water and Blackhall Road. The one-year project will be implemented by UNOPS, with funding from the Government of Japan Funding, as part of FCC’s #TransformFreetown disaster prevention efforts. Mayor Aki-Sawyerr joined Councillors […]
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Power Women 232 have today contributed 40 Veronica buckets, 40 regular buckets and hand washing soap to our Coronavirus response efforts! Mayor Aki-Sawyerr received the donation on behalf of FCC. Those buckets will, very soon, make their way to communities where they are most needed.
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FCC today started rolling out its donation of handwashing stations to all PHUs in Freetown as part of its Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Plan. A total of 9 handwashing stations were distributed to PHUs at Calaba Town, Kola Tree, Allen Town, Wellington, Ross Road, Fourah Bay, Moyiba, Ginger Hall and Jenner-Wright Road, with support from […]
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FCC has today distributed 3000 locally-made masks to market traders at Sani Abacha Street, Salad Gron and Kroo Town Road Markets. Today’s distribution, which was done by Mayor Aki-Sawyerr and the relevant Councillors on behalf of FCC, complements the donation of three 200 litre hand washing stations in these markets. 25 hand washing stations and […]
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On the final day of the national lockdown, FCC disinfected five markets as part of efforts to prevent the spread of diseases like COVID-19 in markets. The markets that benefitted from the exercise were Black Tank Market (Regent Road Lumley), Lumley Market, Kroo Town Road Market, Congo Market (Smythe Street) and Bombay Market. The disinfection […]
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