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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 deadly Ebola various, proper preparedness required, schools environment cleaning and the distribution of

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 Dr James Elston - a public health specialist registrar and infectious disease physician

Article by: Ibrahim A. Kamara Congo town is a great place; with charming people, mixed and exciting cultures. The brightly painted wooden houses built by late Congolese settlers preserved the community's historic looks, young men attracted by soccer gathered in evening trainings in daily basis, and the frequent community soccer leagues usually gathered a crowd of people in the Congo town centre, where get to meet old or

The Welcome Boxes are on their way to our partner schools in Freetown. Thank you to all the staff and pupils who worked together to produce beautifully decorated boxes filled with a wide range of interesting gifts. The Freetown Society were pleased to be able to help with funding for this important project.

On January 29th 2015, Hull Freedom Festival Trust kindly hosted a Fund Raising Gala in aid of the Freetown Society’s Ebola Crisis Appeal. It was an amazing evening of songs and music with the venue and catering provided by Hull University. The evening opened with a performance by Bude Park Primary School with Opera North, next came the Freedom Chorus singers and finally the University Big Band gave

On behalf of our friends and colleagues in Freetown, I’d like to thank everyone for their amazing efforts. To date we have purchased over 400 buckets with sanitation kits which are in daily use around Freetown; additional funding has been sent to ensure a regular supply of chlorine tablets, soap and other necessary supplies enabling the buckets to be used effectively. Last month, £3000 was sent to support

The Hull branch of the International Pupil Council (IPC) is made up of representatives from Hull schools partnered with schools in Freetown, there is also an IPC in Freetown forming a direct link between the pupils. The IPC meet every half term to discuss joint projects, currently they have been coordinating the creation of the Welcome Back to School boxes which are being shipped to their friends in

As part of their joint work, the partner schools in Hull and Freetown, are working towards producing a joint poetry book. Hull pupils have written an amazing variety of poems which have been read by the International Pupil Council. The closure of the schools in Freetown has delayed the project but now their schools have reopened, pupils are busy working on poems, songs and prayers to be added

Following a suggestion from the International Pupil Council, which is made up of pupils from Hull schools with a Freetown partner, staff and pupils have been busy putting together boxes of gifts and useful items to wish their friends and colleagues good luck as they return to school after the Ebola Crisis. There are already over 30 boxes stacked and ready to be shipped, other schools are quickly

My name is John and I am a Water and Sanitation Specialist with Doctors Without Borders in Magburaka in Sierra Leone. For the last two months I have had the pleasure of knowing our mutual friend Tony Gbla. Tony works in the Logistics dispensary in the MSF Ebola Management Centre, and he has been doing a fantastic job in what has been a difficult year in Sierra Leone.

Having been stranded in Hull for six months, Barmmy talks about the changes he see's on his return trip to Freetown in January 2015.

The reopening of school today, marks the start of turn around in the fight against ebola. Most parents are still not sure about sending their kids to school, as the attendance today was not normal. On my way back for Cathedral Primary school, I shared a taxi with a parent who told me that she will not allow her kids to attend school now because she will not