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In building the people, you are addressing those structural drivers of migration. You’re addressing the reasons why these people are moving because, again, the concept of building a wall, versus building people, is about investment.

— Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr

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You invest in people by providing the opportunities that they need to fulfill their own potential.

The impact of the brain drain is a serious one for a city like mine, a country like mine, where we need human capital in order for development to happen.

Through these different interventions, we are creating jobs. We are cleaning our city and we are meeting our objective collectively as Freetonians to transform Freetown

But at the next moment, if that country needs more healthcare workers visas are given to those very people that are needed by their own countries. So you take them when you need them, and you block them when you don’t.

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