Officials from Fambul Tok will today meet with peace mothers at Boama village, Tankoro Chiefdom in Kono District to discuss the issue of loaming seeds as the rainy season in just around the corner.
This information was disclosed in an interview with Michaela Ashwood, head of Peace mother group.
According to her, peace mothers are those women that are traumatized because they encounter negative experience during the civil war in the country. As a result they at Fambul Tok are trying their best to see how they can get these women to do something for themselves in their various communities.
She disclosed that Fambol Tok is operating in five districts around the country namely, Moyamba, Bombali, Koinadugu, Kailahun and Kono, adding that they are receiving requests from other districts for them to be included in the project. She explained that they are trying to give quality service so they are concentrating on these five districts at the moment.
“The meeting in Boama village in the Tankoro section is specifically for Kono district as it is an internal consultative meeting and not cross district consultation,” and they are expecting forty-six participants from twenty six sections in the Kono District.
Madam Ashwood maintained that the purpose of the district consultation meeting is for the peace mothers to share their past experience with each other so that they can learn new ways of doing things to enhance development in their various communities as this is a usual habit to bring every peace mother together every year.
“These women explain their past experience during the war as we normally organize a burn fire ceremony where people usually confess about their past activities,” she said.
Today she disclosed, they will give agricultural seeds to communities that are yet to benefit from the project so that they too will start cultivation as a way of developing their communities.
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