HRCSL exhibits TRC vision to schools
The Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone has started exhibiting the Truth and Reconciliation National Vision to Secondary Schools. (Photo: TRC Laison Officer, Josephine Thompson-Shaw explaining one of the visions to the pupils)
Over the weekend, the Commission went to the Dele School at Allen School after they had exhibited at the Freetown Secondary School for Girls. Since the TRC concluded its mandate, its artifacts were handed over to the Human Rights Commission as custodian.
In popularizing the national vision, the TRC Laison Officer of the Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone, Madam Josephine Thompson-Shaw told pupils of Dele School that the TRC was created to prove an impartial historical record of the conflict. She also said it was to address impunity, respond to the needs of victims, promote healing and reconciliation and to prevent repetition of the violations and abuse.
Josephine Thompson-Shaw also explained that the TRC gave opportunities to both victims and perpetrators to vent out their grievances and to also reconcile. She therefore said the National Vision was one way the TRC sought to fulfil the fifth objective of its mandate which was to avoid a repetition of the violence and abuses suffered.
The Monitoring and Research Officer of HRCSL, Mrs. Patricia Narsu-Ndanema gave a brief background for the creation of the human rights commission and reiterated that the Commission was the custodian of 250 visions contributed by people.
Mrs. Ndanema also spoke that the 250 contributions contained drawings and painting from the public signifying the national vision for Sierra Leone. She however explained that the need for such exhibition was to discuss the way forward and to find a way for the realization of the vision.
The pupils of Dele also presented their own vision and commented on some of the visions in custody of HRCSL after it had being explained to them by the TRC Laison officer.
The Head Teacher of Dele, Francess Browne remarked that she was grateful to have had the Human Rights Commission explain the TRC vision to her pupils.
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