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Posted on Youtube on thursday July 23 2020, the song “Bye and Bye” composed byformer teacher turned domestic worker Lucy Turay, 27, has had more than twothousand views. The first eight lines of the song explain the direcircumstances, Lucy and 33 other Sierra Leonean girls/women now findthemselves in Beirut, the capital of troubled Lebanon. They are unable to leave, with nopapers, […]

The day couldn’t have been more perfect and symbolic. July 24 2020, the day the government extended the use of face masks in England to help reduce the spread of the corona virus. Citizen Outreach chose this date to again give out free face masks to hundreds of residents of Toxteth L8 in Liverpool. Initially

Citizen Outreach Coalition (COC) joined hundreds of other charities fighting COVID-19 on Saturday July 11 2020 when it distributed close to 1000 face masks. This happened in Lodge Lane, the “High Street’ of Toxteth, an inner city neighbourhood in Liverpool inhabited mainly by Black and minority ethnic people. Funding for the project was made possible

Not surprisingly, religion (and not businesses) are one of the fastest growing African led sectors in the UK. Religion including Christianity, Islam is growing fastest across Africa. Some scholars think this is because some Africans, unable or unwilling to face some of the challenges of everyday living, run to churches looking for miracles that oftentimes,

With close to a million people displaced from their homes, some living in bushes and others in neighbouring Nigeria, Citizen Outreach Coalition-Cameroon (COC-Cameroon) has extended a helping hand to some of them in Bamenda, the North West regional capital. The aid was administered with help from Bamenda based organisation Youth Outreach Programme with Funding from

More Liverpool and other sports enthusiast joined us on day five of our year long project codenamed “Kick CardioVascular Diseases out of Merseyside”. Football, table tennis and some walkout at the gym were the sporting activities that took place on Saturday September 7 2019 at the Jubilee Sports Bank, a sporting facility situated in Kensington,

More than 40 residents of Merseyside from young to middle age answered present during the start of our sporting project “Kick Cardiovascular Diseases out of Merseyside”. The venue was the Jubilee Sports bank in Kensington Liverpool and the day Saturday August 24 2019. Table tennis and football were the main game sports during the project

With music playing from a portable public address system in the background, volunteers from charity Citizen Outreach Coalition (COC) were out in force in Church Street, the Life wire of Liverpool city Centre distributing and talking to residents about crime prevention. The event took place on Saturday July 6 2019 and was part of the

The reaction to the acting was initially silence, and then applause as participants gave the thumps up to the workshop facilitator and main speaker. The applause lasted for a few minutes before the actor acknowledged the positive response. The occasion was another workshop organised for young people at Liverpool Power House, a hostel for young