Activista Sierra Leone successfully launched the HungerFREE campaign in Freetown in 2007. Since then, the network has grown and covers most of the regions in Sierra Leone with active volunteer groups fighting for a hungerFREE world.
Activista Sierra Leone successfully launched the HungerFREE campaign in Freetown, Sierra Leoneon Saturday 23rd June 2007, in collaboration with civil society organisations and youth networks. Hunger is a serious problem in Sierra Leone. About 70% of the population are poor and about 26% are food poor, meaning about 1.5 million persons out of the country’s 5 million people, cannot afford to feed themselves. Activista Sierra Leone has regional Activista groups all over the country. Volunteers have made music events and gone together in a HungerFREE caravan gathering voices and demands from small holder farmers. Poor farmers in 21 villages in the Magbema Chiefdom, District of Kambia, Northern Sierra Leone have lost their land to a road construction company known as CSE. They received no compensation. With the 2009 planting season gone, there is a possibility that 10,000 people will go hungry in 2010 if the situation is not addressed.
Activista Tour
In August 2008, 25 activistas, young people campaigning with actionaid, took to the road in Sierra Leone to support the HungerFREE Women campaign. Day 1: Kambia and Day 2: Bomboli.
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