Fambul Tok and Africa transitional Justice Legacy Fund (ATJLF) truth-telling bonfire ceremony at Mowoto village in the Kongbora Chiefdom, Moyamba District, in southern Sierra Leone facilitates confessions and reconciliation among 400 community people. On the 18th February 2021, the Moyamba team organized a bonfire night and a healing ceremony on 19th February 2021`at Mowoto village… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Wan Fambul/One Family
Kongbora Chiefdom Sets up Peace Mothers Executive
Fambul Tok International-SL with support from the African Transitional Justice Legacy Fund strengthens community structures to boost transitional justice in Moyamba district in southern Sierra Leone. It facilitated the formation of Kongbora chiefdom Peace Mothers (PM) executive at the chiefdom headquarters town of Bauya on Wednesday 10th February 2021. Present at the event were… Read more »
Bauya Town Hall Meeting On Peace And Reconciliation
Fambul Tok facilitates town hall meeting at Bauya to strengthen Peace Mothers and Community Welfare and Mediation Committee (CWMC) capacity to facilitate mediation and healing programs, and restore cohesive communities in Kongbora chiefdom, Moyamba district in southern Sierra Leone. The meting supported by Africa Transitional Justice Legacy Fund (AJTLF) discusses the following: Chiefdom speaker is… 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 »
Fakunya chiefdom showcases impact of People’s Planning Process
Community members from Fakunya chiefdom in the Moyamba distict have explained at the donor roundtable and dialogue forum how the People’s Planning Process(PPP) which started three years ago,has impacted them in their various sections,as most places are now working in relative peace to develop their communities. Fakunya partcipants were at the Bintumani hotel in Freetown… Read more »
Section Chief Apologizes
Section Chief Komba Sebba has not been in a good relationship with his elder brother, Aiah Sebba for over ten years. He accused Aiah of campaigning against him when he attempted to be elected section chief of Dumbia in Fiama chiefdom, Kono district. When Komba won, Aiah declared that he would never work with his… Read more »
Visiting the Student Peace Ambassadors of Sierra Leone
One of the most significant parts of my trip to Sierra Leone this December was the opportunity to visit with the student member of the Fambul Tok Peace Clubs. We visited schools in Pujehun, Bombali, and Kornadugu districts. The main goals of our visits were to learn about how the Peace Clubs are run, learn why… Read more »
Fambul Tok Concludes Training for Peace Coordinators in Kenema
Fambul Tok Empowers 60 Secondary School Teachers Fambul Tok International–Sierra Leone in collaboration with Catalyst for Peace, a US-based foundation, has ended a two- day training workshop for 60 teachers drawn from 30 schools in Fambul Tok operational districts–Kailahun, Kono, Koinadugu, Moyamba, Pujehun and Bombali. The training sessions were held from December 1st and 2nd… Read more »
Teachers in Action
On December 1st and 2nd I had the honor to attend and assist in facilitating the Fambul Tok Teachers’ Workshop held at the Pastoral Center in Kenema, in Sierra Leone. The workshop gathered together teachers from thirty schools that house Fambul Tok Peace Clubs from across Sierra Leone (in all 6 of Fambul Tok’s operating districts) to… 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 >