Our long term goal will be:

Build a strong community of Bo District Descendants in the United Kingdom, united to rebuild their District.

  • Build an effective leadership team that emphasizes excellence in every area of their lives.

  • Build orphanages and facilitate foster parenthood for street children.

  • Equip existing schools.

  • Provide and facilitate training for women in basic civic issues, sensitize them about their rights and roles in developments.

  • Collaborate with other agencies to support local hospitals through personnel and materials, build peripheral health centers and health units, train TBAs, etc.

  • Promote public health education and practices.

  • Establish trade schools where basic skills that enhance middle manpower development are taught (bakery, carpentry, computer, masonry, motor vehicle operators, tailoring, hairdressing, market gardening, etc).

  • Organize seminars to teach basic business management skills like banking and savings, bookkeeping, etc. on the farms, in the villages, in the towns to farmers, tailors, carpenters, etc.

  • Developing cooperatives to harness local resources (diamond, cocoa, coffee, etc)

Awoko

Sierra Leone News Media Based in Sierra Leone
Independent, owned and edited by Kelvin Lewis. Awoko was previously online from 2003 to 2004. The current website has been online since January 2007.

Awareness Times

Sierra Leone News Media Based in Sierra Leone
Independent, owned and published by Sylvia Blyden. Online since July 2005.

New Citizen

Sierra Leone News Media Based in Sierra Leone
Independent, owned by Alhaji I.B. Kargbo, the current Information Minister.

Concord Times

Sierra Leone News Media Based in Sierra Leone
Independent daily newspaper in Freetown.

Exclusive

Sierra Leone News Media Based in Sierra Leone
Independent, owned and edited by Sheik Sesay. Online since December 2007.

Standard Times

Sierra Leone News Media Based in Sierra Leone
Independent, edited by Philip Neville, the current president of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists. Online since May 2006.

Cotton Tree News

Sierra Leone News Media Based in Sierra Leone
Independent. Located on Mount Aureol, provides programming to broadcast media around the country. Funded by DfID, the EU, Irish Aid and Hirondelle.

Talking Drum Studio

Sierra Leone News Media Based in Sierra Leone
Independent, funded by Search for Common Ground. Produces news and current affairs programming for broadcast media. Online since December 2004.

The Peep!

Sierra Leone News Media Based in Sierra Leone
Satirical newspaper based in Freetown, and edited by Richie Olu Awoonor-Gordon. Online since January 2008.

Cocorioko

Sierra Leone News Media Based Abroad
Online newspaper owned and operated by Rev. Leeroy Wilfred Kabs-Kanu, and published from Somerset, New Jersey, U.S.A. Online since August 2002.

Patriotic Vanguard

Sierra Leone News Media Based Abroad
Website based in Canada. Published by Gibril Gbanabome Koroma. Online since July 2005.

Sierra Express Media

Sierra Leone News Media Based Abroad
The website is based in the United States. Online since November 2007.

BBC African News

African News Media Based Abroad

Publishes African news from various sources, and provides links to popular audio programmes, such as Network Africa and Focus on Africa.

Voice of America African News

African News Media Based Abroad
News articles rewritten from Voice of America broadcasts.

Google Search of Sierra Leone News

African News Media Based Abroad
News from various sources online, by keywords "Sierra Leone".

United Nations News Centre

African News Media Based Abroad
News from the United Nations News Centre, with occasional articles on Sierra Leone.

The BODDA CIVIC AWARD - 30th January 2010

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