Sixty youth groups, who are beneficiaries of Freetown City Council’s (FCC) Sustainable Waste Management Project, received tricycles and other sanitation tools, at the Council’s premises. The project, funded by the European Union (EU), provides training, mentorship and monitoring over the next 16 months to ensure that the 600 youth, who make up the 60 youth groups, run waste management businesses.

Ms Nereah Amondi Oketch, the winner of the EU-funded Kenyan reality TV series 'Ms President', is coming to Brussels from 17 - 21 November, together with four other finalists from this highly successful show broadcast on Kenyan television. In the TV-series 71 women competed for the title of 'Ms President'. The-TV series raised awareness of the leadership role that women can and should play in society. It ended this summer with the crowning of the first Kenyan ‘Ms President’.