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New secondary school in Campbell Town

In order to enable a seamless transition from primary school to continuing education, the planning for the construction of a secondary school in Campbell Town is completed and the ...
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Education

Girls Empowerment: Education makes girls strong

This scholarship program supports socially disadvantaged and talented girls for twelve months each through regular meetings, excursions, Skype conferences, further training in IT a ...
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Education

Entrepreneurship: promoting young entrepreneurs in the IT sector

This project aims to kindle the young entrepreneurial spirit and support the promotion of small business owners in the digital field. After a feasibility study we decided to arrang ...
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Young Entrepreneurship

Business Plan Competition for start-ups in IT

3 winning teams that pursue their dream of an IT-start-up to be selected for a 1 year kickstart-program including financial scholarship
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Young Entrepreneurship

Emergency Aid after the fire in Susan's Bay (2021)

Support of CARITAS' food supply for Susan's Bay fire victims
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Emergency Aid

Corona Emergency Aid (2020)

Even before the first Covid 19 case in Sierra Leone was reported, the association launched a first aid package. The main focus was on the distribution of hygiene items and educatio ...
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Emergency Aid

UMC Primary School Campbell Town, Waterloo

Long-term support for particularly needy children through food, clean water, clothing, regular health care, and school supplies.
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Education

Educational partnership of the universities of Makeni and Würzburg

The educational partnership of the universities of Würzburg and Makeni is the extension of the project in support of the Hosetta Abdullah Memorial Special Needs School.
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Education

Access to clean water at St. John of God Hospital, Lunsar

In the country and in cities alike, the water supply in Sierra Leone is often problematic in terms of quality and quantity. With the construction of a borehole and the financing of ...
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WASH

Well Drilling School

Improving access to clean water and empowering young entrepreneurs. In many regions of Sierra Leone, there is no safe and clean drinking water supply. With the help of this project ...
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WASH

Emergency Aid after the fire in Kroo Bay (2019)

Fast and uncomplicated immediate help
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Emergency Aid

Water supplies of the “Don Bosco Mudslide Village”

After the landslide disaster, the association organized rapid relief for the victims of the landslide in order to immediately alleviate the greatest need on site. In a newly built ...
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WASH

Water Supply for the Therapy Centre Don Bosco New Fambul

After the landslide disaster, the association sponsored several follow-up projects to the emergency aid provided. The Don Bosco Fambul therapy center is one of them.
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WASH

Emergency Aid after the Mudslide in Freetown (2017)

After the severe landslide in Freetown in August 2017, the association has provided emergency aid
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Emergency Aid

Ebola Emergency Aid at St. John's of God Catholic Hospital in Lunsar (2014)

After the outbreak of the Ebola epidemic, the association Für Sierra Leone e. V. supported the St. John of God Catholic Hospital in Lunsar.
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Emergency Aid

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Elections on June 24, 2023

Sierra Leone is set to hold presidential, parliamentary, local council and mayoral elections on June 24. Several parties are contesting, but the outcome of the presidential and parliamentary elections will most likely be decided, as in 2018, between the leading candidates Julius Maada Bio of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) and Samura Kamara of the All People's Congress (APC). Five years ago, Bio of the SLPP defeated Kamara in a runoff for the presidency, but the APC currently holds the majority in parliament. All citizens over the age of 18 are eligible to vote.

Both parties are led in the elections by the same politicians as in 2018: the APC by Samura Mathew Wilson Kamara and Chernor Maju Bah, the SLPP by current President Julius Maada Bio and Vice President Juldeh Jalloh.

Samaru Kamara of the APC focuses his speeches and appearances on the economic development of the country and the rising cost of living, which complicates the situation of many people. He uses price comparisons to point out the immense cost increases within the last five years. The price of gasoline, for example, has risen from NLE 7 to NLE 21.5 during this period. The APC sees itself as the social liberal party of the little people and advertises with the slogan "If you are comfortable, vote SLPP but if you are suffering, vote APC."

In its 2018 election program, the social democratic SLPP focused on education and vocational support for the population. Already in the year after the election, the promise of free primary school attendance was realized to a large extend and complemented by programs for free school materials and free school meals in primary school. Since the introduction of this "Free Quality Education", the number of students receiving basic education has doubled. In addition, tuition at the university was waived for girls for certain science courses. 21 percent of the national budget has gone to education over the years. In addition, infrastructure measures such as the construction of roads, factories and the airport have been promoted. For the next election period, the SLLP promises to focus on agriculture.

At this point, the SLLP appears to have a good chance of winning the election, not least because some well-known politicians of APC have switched to the. The SLLP currently appears to be making gains in the north and west of the country, which have traditionally been in the hands of its political opponents, while the votes in the south and east of the country, the SLLP's core area, appear to be stable.

FSL as guest at Good Morning Sierra Leone

Simeon Harding presents the Business Plan Competition on Good Morning Sierra Leone:


 

The country Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone

The West African country of Sierra Leone has had suffered from the bloody diamond war in the 1990s, and from the Ebola epidemic. Since then, things are slowly looking up and people are regaining hope.

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Don Bosco
Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg
NGO Network Sierra Leone
Orthopedics for the third world / GLOBOLAB e.V.