By Harriet Mason, Communications Officer with UNICEF Sierra Leone KORTUHUN, Sierra Leone – Zainab Conteh and her team are on a mission to improve the quality of data received from health facilities in Bombali district, northern Sierra Leone. At the end of every month, the 112 health centres in the district are supposed to sendContinue reading Quality data, key to improving health service delivery in Sierra Leone
By Harriet Mason, Communications Officer with UNICEF Sierra Leone WATERLOO, Sierra Leone – As I stepped into the house in a suburb of Waterloo Town, western Sierra Leone, something immediately caught my eye – the broad smile on the face of a 13-year-old boy sitting in a wheelchair and beckoning me to sit beside him.Continue reading In Sierra Leone, supporting children living with disabilities
By Harriet Mason, Communications Officer, UNICEF Sierra Leone FREETOWN, Sierra Leone – Scenic mountains surround the temporary displacement camp in which Mohamed Koroma and his two children have been living for the last four weeks. He sits on a mattress in a tent as he slowly flips through pages of a notebook. He is checkingContinue reading Cash transfers: A lifeline for families touched by Sierra Leone’s deadly mudslide
FREETOWN, 15 September 2017 – As Sierra Leone recovers from the recent deadly floods and mudslide in Freetown that killed over 500 people with many more still unaccounted for, 1,908 affected households will be directly supported with cash through mobile money transfers to help them meet their immediate needs. The cash transfers being funded byContinue reading Over 1,900 households affected by floods and mudslide to receive cash support from UK Aid
