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Sierra Leone
Human Rights
Save the Sea - Grassroots Training in Sierra Leone
More Information About this ProjectProject Needs and BeneficiariesIn Sierra Leone, foreign trawlers fish illegally within the area restricted for local fishermen, causing overwhelming destruction to marine biodiversity as they take everything in their path. 75% of the catch is thrown back into the sea dying while local fishermen struggle to catch fish on which they and their families depend to survive. EJF provides critical training enabling the local community to peacefully drive away the illegal vessels that threaten their local environment and livelihoods. ActivitiesEJF’s training program provides key media (website, photography, film) and leadership skills to enable community action (monitoring of illegal fishing activity and reporting information to the navy) to facilitate arrests and end pirate fishing. Funding InformationTotal Funding Received to Date: £1,173 Additional DocumentationThis project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc). Resources
Why this Project is ImportantPotential Long Term ImpactThe initial project trains 12 local 'trainers' who are then able to train a subsequent 120 people, each able to take action and help coastal communities and the Sierra Leone navy deter pirate fishing vessels and end poverty and hunger for thousands. Project Message
The children need to eat to grow, and they are underfed …if the trawlers don’t go we cannot survive. We are dependent on the waters and the fish, and if they go we have nothing else. Who is Running This ProjectContact
Rebecca Attwood, Project SponsorOrganisation
Learn more about Environmental Justice Foundation and the project team. Where this Project is LocatedCountry
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For more information about Sierra Leone, read the Human Development Report on Sierra Leone or the Wikipedia entry for Sierra Leone. When this Project was UpdatedLast UpdatedThis project was last updated on November 06, 2009. Date Added to GlobalGivingThis project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on March 16, 2009. Latest Update from the FieldEJF launch new film on illegal pirate fishingBy Rebecca Attwood - Executive Assistant to the Directors, April 09, 2009 01:54 PM
   EJF have launched a new film documenting the devastating effects of illegal pirate fishing on poor coastal communities and the vulnerable marine environment in Sierra Leone.
Follow the link below to watch the new 5 minute film. Links: Pictures: Comment on this update
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