For IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Laurence Grotheer
November 5, 2014
203-946-7660 (o); 203-676-6103 (c)
MAYOR HARP SAYS EBOLA CRISIS IN SIERRA LEONE PROMPTS SPECIAL TASK FORCE
TO PROVIDE AMBULANCES FOR NEW HAVEN’S SISTER CITY
New Haven – Mayor Toni N. Harp will be joined tomorrow morning by
Ambassador Ibrahim S. Conteh of Sierra Leone, Deputy Chief of the
Mission, Superintendent of Schools Garth Harries, and a broad spectrum
of New Haven leaders at a press conference to launch a community-wide
fundraising drive for new ambulances for New Haven’s sister city,
Freetown.
New Haven’s unique association with Sierra Leone is literally
hundreds of years old, dating back to the slave ship Amistad and the
Africans aboard who revolted against their captors, landed in
Connecticut, and eventually won their freedom in United States courts. A
formal sister city relationship with Freetown, Sierra Leone was
established in 1997.
Tomorrow’s press conference is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. at the
Amistad sculpture in front of City Hall – 165 Church Street. Members
of the press are invited to attend and encouraged to cover this event.
Tomorrow’s announcement will be moved indoors should it rain.
● Who: Mayor Toni N. Harp, Ambassador Ibrahim S. Conteh of Sierra
Leone, Deputy Chief of the Mission, Superintendent of Schools Garth
Harries, and a broad spectrum of New Haven leaders.
● What: Press conference to launch a community-wide fundraising
drive for new ambulances for New Haven’s sister city, Freetown, Sierra
Leone.
● When: Thursday, November 6, 2014 at 11:30 a.m.
● Where: At the Amistad sculpture in front of New Haven City Hall
– 165 Church Street.
● Why: A formal sister city relationship between New Haven and
Freetown, Sierra Leone was established in 1997, and New Haven has been
asked to help in this time of crisis there. New Haven’s unique
association with Sierra Leone is literally hundreds of years old, dating
back to the slave ship Amistad and its Connecticut history.
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