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The UN agency for refugees, UNHCR, has planned a series of activities in Sierra Leone to celebrate this year's world refugee day, the agency reported in a statement. The activities are scheduled for 20-27 June, it said.
A photo exhibition at the country's museum on women/children refugees and UNHCR general activities in the country will run throughout the week. A promotion and sale of handicrafts made by refugee women will also take place.
Two videos "We were there" and "Don't look back", will be shown continuously the statement said. The first film features a historical overview of UNHCR's first years and includes comments by high profile partners, UNHCR said.
The second film shows the courage of the refugee women and why they need help. A two-day seminar entitled "Spring board for action" will take place in the southern town of Bo on the 20 and 21 June and will be hosted by the Centre for Human Rights and Peace Education.
The Liberian refugee community in the capital Freetown is launching in collaboration with UNHCR a campaign named "Rescue the Liberian Refugees" and a series of event while other activities are scheduled to take place at their Waterloo refugee centre, 25 km south of Freetown, UNHCR said.
Apart from media campaigns, a football tournament in the eastern district of Kenema between male and female staff of various agencies and refugees, a week-long refugee children/girls centred activities, and a workshop on refugee women returning to rebuild their areas of origin will take place in the eastern town of Koidu in Kono District.
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