Complementing President Koroma’s ‘attitudinal change’ initiative, Hope Sierra Leone has awarded 38 certificates to military, police and civil society participants at the just concluded Moral Foundation for Democracy (MFD) Training of Trainer (TOT) course at the Police Training school at Hastings.
The MDF, which was launched on 17th January 2005, is an initiative of change geared towards mending the damaged relationship between the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Force (RSLAF), the Sierra Leone Police (SLP) and the Civil Society to reconcile with one another through the observance of the four core moral values of love, honesty, purity, and unselfishness.
In her opening remarks the chairperson, Assistant Inspector General Kadi Fankondo, explained that the people from these institutions experienced personal transformation, trained to become the ambassadors of change, a change in attitude and mindset of individual for a hate-free and greed-free democratic society.
In his keynote address the guest speaker the minister of Information and Communications, Alhaji Ibrahim Ben Kargbo, said the initiative was laudable as “[it] ensures that the whole process of building peace is maintained”.