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8th September - Awareness Times News Briefs - Sierra Leone
Awareness Times - Freetown,Sierra Leone
Coordinator for West Africa Nation in the Africa Network Campaign and Education for All (ANCEFA), Felicia Onibon is said to have disclosed that Sierra Leone ...

1st May - Concord Times - Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone: EFA-SL Organizes Global Campaign for Education
... reminded government of its obligations as a signatory to the World Education Forum in Dakar in 2000 to provide quality education for all Sierra Leoneans ...

26th April - News - Sierra Leone
Statement from the Minister of Education at the World's Biggest Lesson

Member Organisations
EFASL, Community Empowerment For Rural Development (CEFORD), PADI, Women Forum, Sierra Leone Nurses Association (SLNA, Advocacy Movement Network (Ament), FAWE, Sierra Leone Teachers Union (SLTU), Civil Society Movement  (CSM), Action Aid International Sierra Leone, Network Movement for Justice and Development (NMJD), CCSHRA- SL, Campaign for Good Governance (CGG), Bo District Education Network (BODEN), Kahailun District Education Network (KLDEN, Western Area Budget advocacy Network (WABAEN), PADECO

What happened in Action Week 2009?
The Big Read event was the high point of this year’s Action Week. This activity brought together
schools, adult learners, literacy service providers, parliamentarians and policy makers in a forum that attempted to showcase the state of adult literacy in Sierra Leone. A documentary on educational campaigns across Africa was shared to emphasize the local efforts by education campaigners in Sierra Leone. This was aimed at showing policy makers and local campaigners the efforts of other countries in order to deepen their knowledge and understanding about the need for action on the global commitments made regarding education by governments.

This event also provided the opportunity for adult learners to demonstrate their reading skills in the presence of the Deputy Minister of Education. In particular, adult learners told their individual stories on how literacy had changed their lives but also displayed the literacy benchmarks and read them to the minister in full view of radio and television teams. This did not merely demonstrate reading abilities but was meant to provide further evidence of the place of adult literacy in a post conflict country like Sierra Leone where the prospects for education is still stymied by financing problems.

What happened in Action Week 2008?
What happened 2008?The series of exciting activities planned for Action Week and the World’s Biggest Lesson in Sierra Leone started with a bang.

Officials went back-to-school for a symposium on Quality Education to End Exclusion. A spectacular float covered with school children paraded across the country.

At each event, stakeholders and decision makers were invited to make statements and re-commit to the Education for All goals.

They wrapped up the week by holding a breakfast meeting with the Minister of Education to create an action plan going forward.

What happened in Action Week 2007?

All regions took part in the Action Week’s activities. Panel discussions on education were aired on Radio Maria, Mackneh and the local stations.

And 1,500 students marched with their parents and teachers to the Wusum Sports complex where they addressed the government, education officials and other stakeholders.

The Province’s Senior Education Assistant Secretary
congratulated the organizers of the week for all they had done to put education at the top of the agenda and raising huge public awareness.