President of the national women’s umbrella organization Women’s Forum Sierra Leone, (WFSL), Sallay Adams has on Saturday 8th April, 2023 disclosed that WFSL, in partnership with the Electoral Commission of Sierra Leone (ECSL) and funded by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) or partnership agreement to appeal to registered women voters to collect their voter identity cards.
She threw light further by furthering how the agreement is geared towards appealing to women, especially first time voters, female youths eighteen years and above to collect their voter identity cards at various registration centers nationwide that would make them eligible to vote in the June 24th 2023 elections.
Sallay Adams maintained that the WFSL and its National Executives are currently making passionate pleas to women, especially first time voters, female youths and eighteen years and above to collect their voter identity cards from the 7th– 16th April 2023 from 7am-5pm daily with the clear message that they must remember that it is their right to vote as it is a civic responsibility stressing that rights go with responsibilities as part of their contribution to national development.
The WFSL President stated that it is the fundamental human right of every citizen to exercise the franchise in order to have improved social services, infrastructural development among others reiterating that all women who registered must go and collect their voter identification cards saying in doing so they must exercise patience and be disciplined.
According to the President, the aims and objectives of WFSL are the advancement of the status of women, the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of girls and young women in Sierra Leone while their vision visualizes a Sierra Leone in which women in all parts of the country, irrespective of tribe, religion, culture, education or status are empowered to access available opportunities to develop their talents and qualities in a violent free and peaceful environment, where women and children’s rights are respected and protected.
“The general objective of WFSL is to promote a platform for building effective alliances among women, by sharing information and ideas on current and emerging issues of common concern to women in Sierra Leone, taking collective action on issues affecting women and children,” she also intimated.
