AYV News, September 11, 2024
Mayor of Freetown, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr has joined women of the opposition, All People’s Congress (APC) Party in their Diaspora 6th Region Women’s Congress launch and achievement awards dinner in Lanham, Maryland, USA.
The event attended by APC women’s leaders from across the Diaspora, including representatives from APC Australia, Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom and from APC branches in New Jersey, Minnesota, Arizona, Houston and from several other states.
Mayor Aki-Sawyerr spoke on the theme of the Awards Dinner: ‘Women Supporting Women – the Power of Collaboration’. She emphasised the crucial role of women in leadership, stressing that women’s equal participation in political and public life is essential for national growth’.
She described women as educators, vision setters, mountain climbers and caregivers, linking them to individual pieces of coal burning on their own and said that through collaboration, bringing the individual pieces of coal together, women could ignite a burning fire that would set alight development in families, the APC party and the nation as a whole.
