32 teacher coordinators from 16 schools #Peace Clubs from #Kailahun, #Moyamba, #Pujehun and #Koinadugu end 2021/22 End of Year Planning Conference in Bo district, southern #Sierra Leone. Coordinators flagged the successes, challenges, lessons learnt and activity plans for the way forward for 2021/22 peace building in schools. Fambul Tok (FT) facilitated the conference as part… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Bombali District
Fambul Tok Engages Communities to Strategize for Post-Ebola Challenges
The fight against ebola is not over yet, despite the decreased number of new ebola cases in Sierra Leone. Many social issues and conflicts continue to emerge in communities as a result of ebola. The issues range from the compromise of by-laws by traditional leaders to non-acceptance and discrimination of survivors in their communities. Fambul… Read more »
Peace Mothers Intensify Campaign to Keep Libeisaygahun Chiefdom Ebola-Free
Surrounded by a number of ebola affected chiefdoms, Libeisaygahun is the only chiefdom that is yet to record a single case of ebola. How did one chiefdom, surrounded by other communities with ebola outbreaks, manage to remain ebola-free? Fambul Tok Peace Mothers have been working in collaboration with community members to compliment the national effort… Read more »
Glimmer of Economic Growth Despite Ebola Crisis
All is not lost in the midst of ebola crisis in Sierra Leone. Fambul Tok Peace Mothers from Masabong section, Paki Masabong chiefdom in Bombali district is one of hundreds of Peace Mothers’ groups that is proving this to the world. Despite the outbreak of the ebola disease in the country, coupled with restrictions on movement and… Read more »
Paki Masabong Chiefdom’s Revolving Loan Reaches 20 Million Leones
The Chairlady of the Fambul Tok Peace Mothers in Masabong section, Paki Masabong chiefdom, Bombali district in the north of Sierra Leone, during their regularly monthly meeting on June 5, 2014, proudly announced that their usual revolving loan scheme will amount to 20,300,000 Leones in July, 2014. Giving this update during a Peace Mothers meeting… Read more »
First Female Town Chief Crowned
Chieftaincy in any form and shape in the Northern province of Sierra Leone is a taboo for women. Many women have faced a lot of challenges for the past decades when it comes to chieftaincy or public elections in the country, thus most women have been marginalized. The trend has started changing over the years;… 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 »
Support from US State Department Boosts Peace Mothers in Bombali and Koinadugu
On on April 26, 2014, through a grant from the US Department of State, Fambul Tok International – Sierra Leone facilitated the donation of two brand new machines (a rice mill and cassava grater) as well as cash micro-grants to various Peace Mothers’ groups in Bombali and Koinadugu districts. The rice mill was offered to… Read more »
Sanity Returns to Gbanti Kamaranka Chiefdom
Story: Joseph Momoh Kargbo- Fambul Tok District Staff, Bombali district Makulon section in the Gbanti Kamaranka chiefdom, Bombali district, Northern Sierra Leone has 10 villages. Two of the villages, Makulon and Gbintimaria, according to their chieftaincy arrangements used to alternate power peacefully. Almost 12 years ago, after the demise of the installed section chief, there… Read more »
Councilor Willingly Steps Down as Peace Coordinator
Fambul Tok continues to stand by its core values–one of which is being non-political and non-partisan–and it does not compromise any of its principles. This was demonstrated recently during the training of peace coordinators (teachers) from 30 schools who gathered at the Pastoral Centre in Kenema for a two-day training organized by Fambul Tok in… 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 >