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This page lists posts about the Amplifying Voices through SALT (AVS) project implemented by our partner, BBN in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

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Radio drama in Sierra Leone

By Johnny Fisher / June 21, 2022

Welcome to Saltville – the Freetown neighbourhood setting for a new 15-episode radio drama, based on community household visits and designed to stimulate wider conversations around living with Covid19 in Sierra Leone. 

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Sierra Leone: Learning to live with Covid

By Stephanie Mooney / September 21, 2021

Amplifying Voices is supporting our radio station partner BBN in Sierra Leone as their team of 30 community volunteers visit homes in 9 Freetown neighbourhoods to hear what local households…

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An Everyday Hero of Freetown

By Alice Stout / June 29, 2021

After meeting a team from Amplifying Voices’ local partner, Dennis from Sierra Leone became inspired to positively impact his community by becoming a champion of change. Dennis is from the…

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Sierra Leoneans prevail through Covid isolation

By Alice Stout / March 13, 2021

Social distancing – a term that most of us were unfamiliar with pre-2020. These days, we can hardly have a conversation without mentioning it. Though it is essential to keep…

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Combating Covid-19 in Sierra Leone

By Alice Stout / February 4, 2021

Coronavirus has severely impacted our lives – from pressuring our healthcare to keeping families apart. Though we’ve been persevering through the global pandemic for nearly a year, it is hardly…

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Finding hope during self-isolation

By Stephanie Mooney / March 30, 2020

Stephanie writes about her self-isolation experience and reflects on stories from Sierra Leone, “I started thinking about what could encourage me through this time. I remembered a story from Ebola survivor, Aliu, who I met in Sierra Leone and whose story stayed with me. Even in the darkest of times, facing grief and trauma, Aliu had hope and reached out to others.”

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The Pervasive Flavour of SALT

By Amplifying Voices / November 8, 2019

Another community in Freetown, Sierra Leone is benefitting from the Amplifying Voices through SALT project (AVS)! Young people in Sammy Town have taken up the challenge to repair the damaged…

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Celebrating 3 years of Amplifying Voices in Freetown

By Johnny Fisher / February 16, 2019

HCR (now Amplifying Voices UK) joins with the AVS (Amplifying Voices through SALT) Project in Sierra Leone to celebrate 3 years of strengthening communities and locally generated action with a…

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Promoting safer communities for young girls

By Stephanie Mooney / December 9, 2018

Day 15 of #16DaysofActivism The Amplifying Voices Project was set up in 2015 as a collaborative venture between HCR (now known as Amplifying Voices), Feba UK and the Believers Broadcasting…

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Amplifying Voices in Sierra Leone

By Jon Hargreaves / December 9, 2015

It is nearly 3 months since their country was declared Ebola-free and Sierra Leoneans are yearning for a return to normality.  But for many, life still remains far from normal,…

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