The Minister of Local Government and Rural Development,Maya Moiwo Kaikai has launched the first phase of the “Wan Fambul”-the national framework for inclusive governance and local development.The launching took place at the Radisson Blu conference hall,Aberdeen in Freetown on Tuesday,November 14,2017. Fambul Tok International-Sierra Leone and its partner,Catalyst for Peace,a US foundation that is working… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Recognition
IDPDC collaborates with District Office for peaceful elections
A team of civil society activists,youth representatives and members of the Koinadugu Inclusive District Peace and Development Committee will leave Kabala township tomorrow,September 16,2016 for Falaba and other villages in the Sulima chiefdom. The rationale behind the visit is to sensitize community members and intending candidates for the sectional and township elections in Sulima chiefdom.The… Read more »
SLAJ Yellow Ribbon Campaign
Fambul Tok International-Sierra Leone has extolled the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) Yellow Ribbon Campaign initiative, emphasizing that SLAJ is doing is a great thing to help end Ebola disease in the country. On Friday, March 20, 2015, Fambul Tok headquarter office in Freetown welcomed the President of SLAJ, Kelvin Lewis and his… 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 »
Fambul Tok Joins Fight Against EBOLA
Fambul Tok International-Sierra Leone, in a effort to complement governmental aide and other partners’ work to contain the Ebola disease in the country, has intensified activities focusing on Ebola education in different communities. Sierra Leone is under a 90 day state of emergency on public health. Because of restrictions associated with this declaration, movement to… Read more »
Fambul Tok averts chaos in Jawie Chiefdom
Had it not been for the presence of Fambul Tok staff in Nyeama, one of Fambul Tok’s new sections in Jawie chiefdom, Kailahun district, the whole community would have blown up into total chaos. It all came about when local authorities brought in chiefdom police officers to arrest villagers who haven’t yet paid their local… Read more »
‘Fambul Tok’ to be core subject in schools
The Principal of the Modern School of Science and Technology in Makeni has urged the Ministry of Education Science and Technology to include ‘Fambul Tok’ as one of the core subjects in all educational institutions in the country. John Kanja Koroma made these remarks during presentation ceremony of Fambul Tok (the book) and the second year report to… Read more »
Fambul Tok Urges Government to Declare March 23rd National Reflection Day
Fambul Tok International – Sierra Leone has again called on the Government of Sierra Leone to declare March 23rd an annual day for national reflection. Addressing a press conference on Thursday March 22, 2012 prior to the day’s commemoration, Fambul Tok Executive Director John Caulker, said that the clarion call to commemorate March 23rd had… Read more »
Peace Mothers celebrate support for fish farming
As a way to empower rural women in the country in accordance with this year’s theme “Empower rural women-end hunger and poverty”, Fambul Tok International-Sierra Leone, with funds from Catalyst for Peace, and Tides Foundation in the United States has supported Peace Mothers in Koinadugu, Kono and Moyamba districts to start fish farming in their… Read more »
Sermon preached on Fambul Tok at a church in Texas
We often find ourselves humbled by people’s responses to Fambul Tok (the film), and learning about a recent screening held at a church in Austin, Texas yielded another extraordinary example of this kind of response. On the day that the Church of Conscious Harmony was due to host a screening of the film, Minister Tim… 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 >