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T he Mayor of Makeni City, Sunkari Kabba-Kamara has officially launched the first ever mind changing foundation My Father’s House Foundation (MFHF). The launching was in the form of a dinner which took place over the weekend at Makambo Village Resort, Makeni. In her keynotes address, Madam Sunkari said she felt very humble to be part of the official launch of the Foundation, stressing that she admired the passion of Ninie Unachuku, Co-Founder and Head of Strategy and Rosemarie Suma-Keita, Co-Founder and Head of Public Relations and Fundraising for them to come back home and be part of the development process of the country. She described the coming of the Foundation as very timely as Sierra Leone just came out from the deadly ebola which she said the youth suffered the most and they also contributed a lot to that fight. “So if you are coming today to launch this program which is geared towards lifting our youth from poverty, I must commend you for the passion and lov...

In 2007 when President Koroma came to power, he promised Sierra Leone an uninterrupted supply of electricity   but observers say that the electricity supply in the country is very erratic and interrupted especially in the capital Freetown. This, they say has been a perennial problem for the people of   Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone where in every dry season the people experience power cut and shortages across the city . Also they bemoaned the   acute shortage of water in Freetown. The shortage of water in the capital of Freetown has been a very serious problem for the people as every now and then underage children, mostly girls, are seen with jerry cans scouting for water across the capital, especially in the unholy hours of the night This has led to the increase of teenage pregnancy in the capital as late at night vulnerable girls will be out in the street looking for water thereby becoming the prey of area boys.