At her guest honoured visit at Waterloo Community Education College (WAT-CEC), the First Lady of the Republic of Sierra Leone, Madam Fatima Jabbie Bio, assured an audience of students and parents of giving them electricity supply in the community.

Her message was welcomed jubilantly by a  crowds of a mixed audience comprising teachers, parents, teachers and senior authorities of the  medical college, WAT-CEC at York Road community on Monday 24th February, 2025.

Madam Jabbie was invited by the school authorities to officially give the college a face-lift to members of the public.

The community college, which has been serving Waterloo community for years, has been offering medical courses like: Public Health Nursing, State Registered Nursing (SRN), Nursing Aid.

A year 2 student of Public Health Nursing, Isata spoke to Africa 24 expressing a feeling of hope on hearing the short visit of the First Lady.

“I heard my colleagues saying that First Lady Fatima Bio wanted to take over the college, she said.”

Asked about her opinion on this, she said, “it is a welcoming idea.”

She added that to hear also that the First Lady had promised Waterloonians to fast – track talks of giving Waterloo regular electricity meant to her and residents of Waterloo a complete joy.

“If she ensures that that is so by giving Waterloo light, it is going to be a good one too.”

WAT-CEC has been the oldest nursing education centre in Waterloo – Western Area Rural district.

Despite its long distance from the capital Freetown, students from Goderich, Lumley, Wellington, have been coming to attend classes at WAT-CEC leaving residents of Waterloo sons and daughters behind who become dropouts swelling up the numbers of unemployed in the country.