Season’s Greetings to all our members, as festivities get underway and we look forward to new beginnings in 2012.

Thank you to each and every member for your support during 2011. SLBA will continuing to deliver vital social and community support service despite the extreme challenges. We wish you all the very best for the festive season and a happy and peaceful New Year. We`ve uploaded some photos from our Xmas Party please click on the media tab to view them.

From the SLBA Committee.

SLBA Women and Children day visit to Butlins Bognor Regis. This trip is part of a series of summer activities we have set up the Children. Thanks to funding received from Brighton and Hove City Council and Sussex Community Foundation. The children had so much fun, we plan to go there again next year.

SLBA women`s Group have attended their first training session as part of their catering project. They have completed Food Safety Level 2 course this is the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health accredited one day course.This course introduces the main principles of safe food production. The next session will cover European Cookery covering; dishes, techniques and ingredients used within Europe (focusing on the UK). This session will be practical with all of the ladies getting involved in cooking and eating the dishes. They will receive a cerficate at the end of each session. The aim of this catering project to enable women in our community to come together on their own so they can develop a stronger voice and greater involvement in the Association. Running proctical projects will give members of the women`s group a stronger focus and a chance to learn to work together more effectively.

The Sierra Leone Parliament has approved the National AIDS Commission Act 2011 on Tuesday 5th July 2011. The Act intends to establish the AIDS Commission that will be responsible to make policies for the prevention, management and control of HIV/AIDS in the country.

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Airtel Sierra Leone, one of the leading mobile telecommunications company in the country, has partnered with the Manchester United Football Club to organise a national gala so as to identify a rising football star aged 17 to attend a coaching clinic in Gabon and Tanzania under the Manchester United Soccer Schools Program.

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President Koroma says, Sierra Leone will use Biometric Voting System in the 2012 ElectionsHis Excellency President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma, in collaboration with the United Nations Development Project (UNDP) and the National Electoral Commission (NEC) are laying the foundation for Free and Fair Elections by innovating the Sierra Leone election processes with Biometric Voter Registration System

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