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September 17, 2017
Building Citizen and Community Resilience to Respond to Emergencies
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Though local residents, volunteers, faith groups and the community at large are proactive self-organisers and have always been the ‘first and critical emergency response’ — their contribution is often unacknowledged, thereby reinforcing the narrative that it’s only institution-led efforts that have an impact in minimising or reducing the scale of disasters.

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June 10, 2017
Flying over Freetown
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Take a 2 minute tour of the Freetown Peninsula

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October 21, 2016
Audiograms: experiments in sharing audio content
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We’re experimenting with new ways of generating and sharing audio content through social media. Please listen and share these two ‘Audiograms’ that were created from work produced during our recent Environmental Reporting Workshops in Freetown.

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August 24, 2016
Environmental Reporting Workshops, Freetown
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I’m pleased to have been part of the recent environmental reporting workshops organised by the Lost Freetown Collective (LFC) and Hirondelle USA, and hosted by Concept Multimedia. Led by co-director of LFC, Nazia Parvez, the workshops brought together Freetown-based journalists and media professionals to explore the theme: ‘coastal zone management and climate change.’

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