Fambul Tok trains 65 women from Upper and Lower chiefdoms on inclusiveness, national cohesion, peace and sustainable development at Mosenesie at Lower Banta in Moyamba district. Participants were drawn from women in the Community Development Committee (CDC), Grievance Redress Committees and community-based organizations (CBOs). Fambul Tok District coordinator Solomon Yarjoh welcomed participants and said that… Read more »
Posts By: Abdul Rashid
21 Disputes Resolved at Mokerewa Bonfire
Fambul Tok team, in collaboration with African Transitional Justice Legacy Fund (ATJLF), facilitated community bonfire & #reconciliation in Mokorewa village, Njawa section in Fakunya chiefdom, #moyamba, southern #sierraleone on November 28/29, 2020. 500(200 men, 300 women) from all surrounding villages attended the bonfire. 25 confessions were made. Peace Mothers settled 21 cases and 4 matters… Read more »
Fambul Tok Trains 70 Women on Peace and National Cohesion
Fambul Tok trains 70 women from Malen and Makpele chiefdoms in Pujehun district on inclusiveness, national cohesion, peace and sustainable development. Fambul Tok Pujehun District coordinator Joseph Kargbo welcomed participants and said that the purpose of the training is for women to continue social cohesion for sustainable peace and development, mitigating resource based conflicts and… Read more »
Gbapi Songo Bonfire Settles 20 Disputes
Fambul Tok facilitates truth-telling bonfire at Gbapi Songo, Songo section in the Fakunya chiefdom, Moyamba district. Over a thousand people from the 17 villages attended the ceremony on Monday evening. The truth-telling ceremony started with prayers, dancing and singing. Section chief John Sinnah welcomed the bonfire as an opportunity for cultural rebirth and community reunion…. Read more »
Fambul Tok Trains 60 CBOs in Kailahun District on PPP
Fambul Tok (FT) over the weekend trained 60 community based organisions participants from 15 chiefdoms in the Kailahun district on the Wan Fambul National Framework (WFNF) and the Peoples Planning Process (PPP). FT Executive Director John Caulker challenged the community people to take charge of their own development through the PPP. “Local people have the… Read more »
Government Ministers attend GRC and MSP Meetings in Moyamba
The minister of State Office of the Vice President Frances Alghali, Minister of Agriculture Forestry and Food Security and the Deputy Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Melrose Kargbo attended Grievance Redress committee (GRC) meeting and visited inland valley rice farm at Mokanji and later participated in the rotational Multi Stakeholders Platform (MSP) meeting… Read more »
Moyamba Gets 4 New Peace Mothers Groups
Fambul Tok field staff facilitated the formation of Peace Mothers groups in Kowama, Njagnema , Yelima and Ngolahun sections in the Kamajei Chiefdom in Moyamba District in southern Sierra Leone. The Peace Mother coordination team visited 27 villages in the four sections in the Kamajei chiefdom and held preparedness meetings with communities. The women and… Read more »
Press Release on International Day of Peace
Today, as we celebrate the International Day of Peace on the theme Shaping Peace Together, we are committing to spreading compassion, kindness and hope in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Fambul Tok calls for Political tolerance, peace and national cohesion in Sierra Leone. Fambul Tok calls on the people of Sierra Leone, political… Read more »
Stories from Bombali
Excerpts from Fambul Tok Volunteer Sara Waldheim’s blog, Around the World with Sara. Follow her adventures here. On May 31 I attended my first School Bonfire & Oral History Presentation at Panlap Community Junior Secondary School in Bombali District. Fambul Tok is now in five schools in each of the six districts where they are active… Read more »
Stories from Koinadugu
Excerpts from Fambul Tok Volunteer Sara Waldheim’s blog, Around the World with Sara. Follow her adventures here Easter in Kabala Easter Sunday presented a great opportunity to attend a church service, Sierra Leone style. A Fambul Tok staff member, Rev. Emmanuel, invited me to come with him and his family to the Wesleyan church in Kabala. … Read more »
PPP News and Events
Peace mother becomes first female town chief in Darsalam
A peace mother who was charged with the task of charge coordinating activities of her colleagues in Darsalam,Kasunko chiefdom Koinadugu district was recently chosen as the very first female town chief ever in the history of Darsalam 1 in Kasunko Kakelain chiefdom Koinadugu district. Madam Neneh Binta Barrie was... Read More >
68 Teacher coordinators undergo training on transitional justice /management of school clubs
A total of sixty eight teacher cooridinators from 34 junior secondary schools in Kailahun.Moyamba,Pujehun and Koinadugu districts have just concluded training sessions in various district headquarters towns. These sessions helped teachers to strengthen their work on transitional justice and management of peace clubs in their various districts.It was organised... Read More >