Yesterday, 8th May 2020, FCC donated food items to two quarantine homes. With support from CARE, a total of 32 people currently in quarantine at Kissy Dockyard and Kissy Byepass Road benefitted from donations of 16 bags of rice, 9 bags of onions, 92 bundles of water, 35 gallons of palm oil, charcoal and other […]
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Over the last two days, Councillors and senior management of the Freetown City Council (FCC) had day-long trainings on the appeals process of the Council’s Property Tax and Business Licence Reform. The training exercises – which took place on Thursday for senior management and Friday for Councillors, provided the opportunity for Councillors and management to
FCC, with funding from DfID, has been working on rolling out 7 transfer stations across the city. The transfer stations will temporarily hold household waste collected by waste service providers (not for individual household use) until they are transferred to dumpsites at the end of each day. One of such transfer stations, located at Upper
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Freetown City Council (FCC), through the support of UNOPS and Irish Aid, has provided 10 hand-washing Stations, with hand sanitizers and soaps to 5 communities in Freetown as part of the behavioral change efforts to ending COVID-19 in Freetown. The 5 communities – Sir Samuel Lewis Road Aberdeen, Cola Tree Community, Aberdeen Ferry Road, Syke
In preparedness for the 2020 rainy season, FCC, with support from Engineers without Borders Denmark, is constructing a 100-meter drainage in the flood prone Portoh Levuma community in Juba. The project is being implemented by World Hope with National Skills Pool, a local community based organization, providing supervision. Councillor Abdul Karim Turay of Ward 446
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Yesterday, 3rd May, 2020, FCC provided 4 quarantine homes with food supplies as part of our isolation and containment support in the FCC Preparedness and Response Plan. A total of 68 people in quarantine homes at Calaba Town (1 location), Zara Lane (1 location) and Wellington (2 locations) received water, rice, onions, palm oil, and
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With hand washing being a key measure in preventing the spread of COVID-19, FCC has accelerated its plans to provide rainwater harvesting systems in sixty-eight of the city’s most water-deprived communities. The provision of handwashing systems is a key component of FCC’s support to enable behavior change necessary to prevent #COVID19. FCC is aware of
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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