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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

Official statistics indicate over 12.500 people have had settled status and just under 2000 people been compensated (May 2021) which is far below the more than 50.000 people estimates indicate may have been affected by the windrush Generation crisis. The Home Office is encouraging more people who could have been affected to get in touch

 With growing numbers across Merseyside (Liverpool) and the UK in general, where will African Pentecostal churches be in the foreseeable future as fewer second generation African migrants go to the churches of their parents? Statistics indicates mainstream churches across the UK including Anglican, Catholic, Methodist and other religions have been losing congregation members in thousands

Loneliness, isolation and mental health issues are some of the side effects the UK government lock down measures to help stop the spread of the deadly COVID 19 pandemic has brought to millions of people across the country. “This is the first call I am receiving in over five months now”, a 64 year old

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,