Sierra Leone

05-05-2006

In a bid to meet the food security drive next year and provide employment opportunities, the Ministry of Youth and Sports and the UNDP, the youths of Mulornya Community Development Organisation (MCDO) in Baoma, Valunia Chiefdom has benefited from a UNDP funded project worth Le 39million of palm kernel cracker and nut oil processing machines. The project beneficiaries are approximately 400 vulnerable women in the chiefdom, which is 30 miles north of Bo town, in the south.

At a launching ceremony for the machines on 5 May 2006, the Programme Director of MCDO, Mr. Nabieu H. Allieu assured the UNDP that ‘the women of Mulornya will handle the project with utmost care and the money that has been entrusted on them will be used reasonably for the development of the Chiefdom.” The Minister for Youth and Sports, Dr. Dennis Bright, who was also present at the ceremony, touched on gender equality, saying that by empowering a woman you have helped a whole household. “That is why we are making such projects to be championed by women.”