AYV News April 12, 2023
Women’s Forum Sierra Leone, (WFSL) has encouraged all women to go collect their Voter Identification Card at the respective centers designated by the Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone.
President of the Forum, Sallay Adams said the Forum and the Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone (EC-SL) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) or partnership agreement to appeal to registered women voters to collect their voter identity cards.
She said the Agreement is to appeal to women, especially first-time voters, female youth and eighteen years and above to collect their voter identity cards at their various registration centers nationwide that would enable them to vote in the June 24, 2023 elections.
Mrs. Adams said the WFSL and its national executives are appealing to women to collect their voter identity cards from 7th– 16th April 2023 from 7am-5pm daily, underscoring that they must remember that voting is their right and civic responsibility and that rights go with responsibilities as part of their contribution to national development.
The WFSL President furthered that it is also the human rights of every citizen to come out and vote during elections for improved social services, infrastructural development among others reiterating that all women who registered must go and collect their voter identification cards that would enable them vote during the elections and appealed to all women to be disciplined and not to engage in any acts of violence for a peaceful, credible and transparent elections.
The WFSL seeks to advance the status of women, promotes gender equality and empower girls and young women in Sierra Leone.
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.
