'Training for Trainers' provides critical skills to our grassroots partner in Sierra Leone to enable community-action that will end hunger and poverty caused by illegal pirate fishing.
In Sierra Leone, foreign trawlers fish illegally within the area restricted for local fishermen, causing overwhelming destruction to marine biodiversity as they take everything in their path. 75% of the catch is thrown back into the sea dying while local fishermen struggle to catch fish on which they and their families depend to survive. EJF provides critical training enabling the local community to peacefully drive away the illegal vessels that threaten their local environment and livelihoods.
EJF's training program provides key media (website, photography, film) and leadership skills to enable community action (monitoring of illegal fishing activity and reporting information to the navy) to facilitate arrests and end pirate fishing.
The initial project trains 12 local 'trainers' who are then able to train a subsequent 120 people, each able to take action and help coastal communities and the Sierra Leone navy deter pirate fishing vessels and end poverty and hunger for thousands. Trainers will specifically be able to teach community members how to effectively document and report illegal activities to Government agencies who are then able to arrest vessels using this information.
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
