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 […]
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
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
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
We are in day 2 of the 3 day lockdown. Everyone is required to stay indoors from Sunday 5th April to Tuesday 7th April. FCC was able to obtain 80 passes for sanitation staff yesterday morning. So whilst the streets were empty last night and this morning, FCC staff and our registered tricycle waste collectors
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Residents of about 6000 households will sleep better tonight after Mayor Aki-Sawyerr, on behalf of Freetown City Council, donated cooking provisions to some of Freetown’s most vulnerable! Three informal settlements, Rokupr, Crab Tong-Kolleh Town-Grey Bush (CKG) and Cockle Bay received 50 bags of rice, 15 bags of onions and other cooking provisions for their most
Yesterday, Freetown City Council (FCC), in collaboration with UN Women and Sierra Leone Women Engineers (SLWE) held an orientation session for the first cohort of the Women4Climate Mentorship Program mentees and mentors. Women4Climate is an initiative adopted by C40 Cities that engages female Mayors across the globe who are committed to tackling issues of climate
