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Motorbikes worth US$25,000 donated to Youth ProjectPress Release 18-02-2008 Freetown, Sierra Leone --- A handing-over ceremony took place on Friday, 15 February 2007 at the offices of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, of eleven XL Motorbikes worth over US$25,000. The motorbikes were awarded to eleven youth organisations to enable them to monitor a fuel wood project currently in progress. The Fuel Wood Project, supported by the Ministry of
Education, Youth and Sports,
Speaking at the ceremony at the National Stadium on Friday, Raymond Nsilt, of Nationwide Relief Organisation, thanked the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports and UNDP for its support to the Fuel Wood Project and provision of the much-needed motorbikes. He told the Ministry that “the bikes will be used to monitor the fuel wood programme effectively and efficiently.” He went on to note that “the project aims to fully engage the youths as partners in the programme and assist them in developing alternative income strategies.” |
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the United Nations Development Project
(UNDP), and the National Commission on Environment and Forestry, aims to
engage over 550 young people to replant trees in deforested areas around
Freetown. The project, funded by the Government of Japan, focuses on tree
plantation, which will later be used to create firewood and generate
income for the youths. Chosen from eleven different communities in the
western peninsula, the youths will be taught about the environmental
affects of degradation of forestry, in order for them to help minimize the
environmental degradation of the Western Area Peninsula Forest.