Community organisation Citizen Outreach Coalition Sierra Leone (COC-SL) has launched an ambitious three years campaign to reduce the massive damage plastic bags cause to the environment across Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone. Shoppers have been depending on free plastic bags when shopping for groceries and small items for a long time, unaware of the […]

Young People Learn Healthy Cooking Skills Dozens of Young people across Liverpool have been taking part in cooking sessions and learning how to source nutritious ingredients, cook & eat so they can avoid more expensive fast food alternatives a lot of their peers like. Some were so enthused in the cooking classes they say they

More Liverpool Black and ethnic minority communities have agreed to join the fight to protect the climate and environment to secure the future for their children and grandchildren as charity Citizen Outreach Coalition COC continues its climate awareness campaign. During a campaign event with Friends of Liverpool, a social meeting of mostly migrants from Cameroon

The October 31- November 13 2021, Glasgow- UK climate change conference (COP26) was another occasion to remind all of us climate change is here and is damaging to our environment. The conference again reinforced the notion that we are all stakeholders in the fight to protect our jobs, communities and health by helping to protect

Dozens of street beggars living across the Sierra Leonean Capital Freetown had reasons to smile when civil society organisation Citizen Outreach Coalition Sierra Leone (COC SL) offered them food packages and drinks at the height of the COVID crisis in the country With limited resources, most beggars fend for themselves, a situation COC SL country

The choice of cars we drive, the amounts of energy we use at home/office, how many times we decide to fly, the choice of things we buy are all examples of how our personal decisions can reduce the effects of climate change. When we make the wrong decisions, we help pollute the atmosphere which in

In what Windrush campaigners are describing as a win, the Home Office has removed the April 2023 deadline that those affected by the WIndrush scandal could apply for compensation for the wrongs they suffered. Garrick Prayogg, a Windrush Campaigner based in Liverpool had maintained the date was arbitrary and could stop some victims from making

Citizen Outreach Coalition has been supporting young people and giving them a safe space to talk about the challenges and mental health issues they faced because of COVID 19 and lockdown. During a meeting at PowerHouse, a housing complex which provides temporary supported accommodation services for young people in Toxteth Liverpool, some were advised to

Liverpool residents struggling to complete their Windrush claims to the Home Office will soon get help after a new pressure group was launched to assist them. The Liverpool Windrush Generation & Descendants was launched on Sunday June 20 2021 in the church premises of Christian Gold House Ministry off Kensington Road. The launch was part