By: WASH R&E “Media” Network – As the raining season starts in Liberia, people residing in slum communities especially in and around Monrovia are now worried because their respective communities stand the risk of been flooded or polluted mostly due to poor sanitary and drainage conditions. Many of these slum communities lack decent toilet facilities coupled with serious problems of waste management and the constant misuse of drainages thereby putting them at risk. Residents of these communities always experience serious health hazards during the heavy down pour of rain. One of such community is the Bong Mines Bridge Area/king Peters... Continue Reading
LUSAKA, Zambia, May, 2014/ — IBM (NYSE:IBM) (http://www.ibm.com) today announced a collaboration with the Zambian Ministry of Health to provide citizens with improved access to 200 lifesaving drugs. Supported by the World Bank, the Department for International Development, UNICEF and London Business School, Zambia’s Medical Stores Limited (MSL) will deploy a new medical supply chain pilot project using sophisticated analytics and mobile technologies to better manage medicine inventory and delivery. The public health sector in Zambia registers 100,000 deaths annually due to preventable and treatable diseases. The goal of the medicine supply chain management project is to save more lives by making medicine... Continue Reading
By: WASH R&E “Media Network – WaterAid Programme Manager for Liberia and Sierra Leone, Chuchu Selma has addressed Members of the Liberian senate on behalf of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) International Organizations in Liberia. Mr. Selma spoke last Monday at the National Legislature during a WASH Public Hearing called by the Senate Committees on Public Corporations and Public Works & Rural Development to examine issues of water, sanitation and hygiene in Montserrado County in particular and Liberia in general. Below is the full text of the Presentation made by Mr. Selma on the topic: “International Organizations Support for Proper... Continue Reading
By: WASH R&E “Media” Network – The Liberia Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Consortium in partnership with the Liberian government and partners recently launched a 7.5 million British Pounds WASH Project. The DFID Swift Programme “Sustainable WASH in Fragile ConTexts” with support from the United Kingdom Aid (UKaid) through the Department for International Development, targets six rural counties of Liberia with the aim of providing equitable and sustainable access to improved water and sanitation services. The Project which targets two hundred forty six thousand one hundred (246,100) beneficiaries in Bong, Nimba, Lofa , Sinoe, Grand Bassa and rural Montserrado counties,... Continue Reading
By Dennis Kabatto – The New York African Film Festival (NYAFF) will show the critically acclaimed Half of a Yellow Sun by National Book Critics Circle Award–winning Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and four dozen films, as part of its 21st edition which begins Wednesday, May 7 -13 at The Film Society of Lincoln Center (FSLC) in New York City. “There are 48 films from Cairo to Cape Town represented in this festival and there are several films that are made by people who are of non-African heritage,” said Sierra Leonean born AFF Executive Director and NYAFF Founder Mahen Bonetti... Continue Reading
