The #CleanestZoneCompetition is on!!! Our assessors are in the 322 communities that make up our city, looking for the communities that are making the effort to improve cleanliness and beautification sustainably and innovatively. The communities that make the most improvement with whatever little they have will be rewarded with infrastructure development. All communities are qualified to be […]
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Tar Road Community in the east of Freetown is getting a brand new feeder road from FCC as winners of the first edition of #CleanestZoneCompetition! If you want development like Tar Road, join your Councillors and mobilize your neighbors to keep your community clean. The community that makes the most improvement in cleanliness, beautification, sustainability and
This morning, sixty youth groups, who are beneficiaries of Freetown City Council’s Sustainable Waste Management Project, received their tricycles and other sanitation tools, including shovels and wheelbarrows at the Council’s premises. The project was funded by the European Union (EU) and Freetown City Council is providing training, mentorship and monitoring to ensure that the 600
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This morning, recently appointed Ambassador of the Republic of Ireland to Sierra Leone, Lesley Ní Bhriaian, paid a courtesy call to Mayor Aki-Sawyerr at the Mayor’s Parlour in Freetown. During the visit, the Mayor and the Ambassador discussed the support that Irish Aid has already given Freetown City Council, which has been critical in the
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Today, a delegation from the Embassy of China to Sierra Leone handed over 20-solar street lights and several smaller indoor and outdoor solar lights to Freetown City Council (FCC). The items were presented to the Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr at the Mayor’s Parlour in the presence of Chief Administrator, councillors and staff of FCC. The donation
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Today, International Organization for Migration (IOM) handed 20 tricycles, 2 motorbikes and other tools to FCC, to help the Council achieve its target of having 60% of solid and liquid waste safely collected, managed and disposed of by 2022. IOM, as part of its efforts to reduce irregular migration by boosting youth entrepreneurship, supported Council’s
The newly appointed British High Commissioner to Sierra Leone, Simon Mustard, together with the Head and Deputy Head of DfID (SL), Kobi Bentley and Sandy Baldwin, paid a courtesy call to Mayor Aki-Sawyerr earlier today. They had a lighthearted chat, which spanned various areas; from the Mayor’s priorities over the next three months to an
Newly Appointed British High Commissioner Pays Mayor of Freetown A Courtesy Call Read More »
The CEO of Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria & West Africa, Mr Lamin Manjang, visits Freetown and he passed by the Aberdeen Roundabout to see the progress of the beautification work being done. The Roundabout’s beautification is being funded exclusively by Standard Chartered Bank Sierra Leone. Deputy Mayor of Freetown, Osman Koroma, was there to receive
CEO of Standard Chartered Bank West Africa Visits Abderdeen Roundabout Read More »
REF: MO – 09/19 – 01 For Immediate Release 20th September, 2019 Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr leaves today for New York to attend the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) where world leaders will gather to discuss and work together on the most pressing global issues – from gender inequality to
On Friday 13th September 2019, Freetown City Council took possession of 12 new school buses that were procured by the Ministry of Transport and Aviation to support the central government’s Free Quality Education Program. The introduction of the school buses also directly supports Freetown City Council’s Transform Freetown education targets. In order to ensure that
Freetown City Council Tests Bus Routes & Bus Stops for New School Buses Read More »
