Last week's Freetown Society Open Evening was a huge success! We were welcomed by the Afro Caribbean Association who provided a very suitable venue in which those in attendance were entertained, fed and informed. The Sierra Leonean food proved to be a huge hit as the home made cassava leaves were washed down by shots
In this article, John Oldfield looks at the contextual importance an event such as the Freedom Festival has for today's society. This is a very interesting article that links to our work with Freetown and also ties in heavily with the research that Stolen Lives and WISE conduct. To read the full article, follow the
This coming weekend sees the Freedom Festival return to Hull. A celebration of culture and our own history; this festival represents the ideal stage from which to perform. During the afternoon of Saturday 3rd September, Stolen Lives will be putting on 2 separate performances. Children from St Mary's College, Hymers College and Sirius North Academy
Thanks to Barmmy Boy, we have received the term times for the upcoming school year in Freetown. Like our schools, they follow a 3 term structure with holidays for Christmas, Easter and the summer break. This will help in regards to the planning of joint projects and also communication between head teachers. 1st Term: 13th
Join members of the Freetown Society at this fascinating conference: Conference Programme: The Hakluyt Society Maritime Trade, Travel and Cultural Encounter in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Location: Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation, 27 High Street, Hull. HU1 1NE Friday 13 November – Saturday 14 November 2015 Friday 13 November 2015
The Lord Mayor of Kingston upon Hull, Councillor Anita Harrison has today called for urgent support for one of our twinned cities, Freetown. Torrential rainfall in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, last week led to severe flooding which has seen lives lost and thousands of residents have had to flee their homes which have
The Freetown Society, the Hull Society and Conforti have all been working together to help those affected by the recent terrible floods. The Freetown Society sent £2,000 to Francis Mason on Friday 25th. Francis then met with members of the Hull Society to decide on the priorities. They went shopping for the supplies on Saturday
In the last week, Sierra Leone has suffered some of the worst rains in over 40 years resulting in large areas of Freetown being flooded. All schools and businesses were closed for 2 days at the height of the flooding. Many homes have been destroyed with families taking shelter in the national stadium. UNICEF and
The ministry of Education, Science and Technology [M.E.S.T] Sierra Leone has recently revised the calendar of the current 2014 / 2015 academic year. The first assured communicated date for the reopening of schools was 30th march 2015, Saturday schooling was added in to consideration with an intense academic work. Amid an intense fight against a
The Freetown Society Open Meeting Thomas Ferens Academy Wednesday 1st July 2015 Programme: 6.30 Kathleen Guthrie, Chairperson. 6.35 Welcome by the Lord Mayor of Hull. 6.40 A short film produced by Barmmy Boy giving an update from Sierra Leone. 6.50 Pearson Primary School – a year in the life of our partnership. 7.05
