August 2022

On the 19th of August, the National Youth Leadership Summit 2022 was held at the Sierra Leone House of Parliament with the theme ‘’Youth in Peace Building and Conflict Resolution’’. Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr was invited as the keynote speaker and delivered an engaging and inspiring talk. She shared her experiences from her youth days, recognized […]

Transform Freetown’s “Health Sector Target One” is the reduction of maternal mortality in Freetown. So on Friday 19th August, Councillor Matilda Kamara and Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr joined CRS and DHMT representatives at Greybush PHU for the handover of essential furniture to the Greybush PHU. This handover followed the completion of an EU-funded project which included

Officials from the Freetown City Council (FCC), Catholic Relief Services (CRS), and District Health Management Team (DHMT) on Thursday, August 18, embarked on a joint tour that took them to six Transfer Stations and five Peripheral Health Units (PHUs) within the Freetown Municipality. The transfer Stations visited are located at Macauley Street, Allen Town, Lumley,

The Freetown Market Shade Cover project in Calaba Town Market was launched on Friday 26th August 2022, with the theme “Protecting women and girls from extreme heat”. The project is also being delivered in Congo Market and Bombay Street Market. The project funders, the Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Centre and the Atlantic Council, are collaborating

As a 2021 Time100Next Honoree, Mayor Aki-Sawyerr had the honor of being invited to the Time100 Impact Awards and Gala. She was humbled to have been asked to present Mr Tony Elumelu CON, founder and chairman of UBA Group, with his Time 100 Impact Award for his incredible investment in human potential through the Tony

Water is life and in Freetown, the consequences of limited or no access to clean, potable water are acutely felt by almost 50% of our residents and to some degree by us all. The challenges of access to water increase with the continued deforestation of the Western Area Peninsula National Park which protects the city’s

Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr was thrilled to speak at the 10th Africa Conference on Sexual Health and Rights #ACSHR2022 on July 1st.  She was asked to focus on how Local Governments can create safe spaces for women and girls.  She talked about how the new #CongoWaterMarket #FCCEarlyLearningCenter, and the soon-to-be-opened #KrooTownRoadMarket provide free high-quality pre-school education

On Friday 29th April Mayor Aki-Sawyerr was at the UN Headquarters in New York where she participated in the inaugural meeting of the UN Local2030 Coalition Steering Committee.  The UN launched the Local2030 Coalition as a platform and network designed to support and accelerate local-level delivery of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Coalition

On 28 and 29 July 2022, the FCC held a 2-day training on Dumpsites Management, Transfer Stations, and Faecal Sludge Standard Operation Procedures (SOPs) with support from GOAL Sierra Leone and from Bournemouth University Disaster Management Centre (BUDMC) and notably Prof Lee Miles. The training’s goal was to enhance the resilience of sanitation workers in

Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr participated in the Africa Drive for Democracy Conference hosted in Arusha, Tanzania by the MS Training Center for Development Cooperation, the Center for Strategic Litigation, and the Institute for Security Studies, and with participants from 26 countries across Africa. The conference is a response to the current democratic decline and growing threats