Cleverly to visit mother’s Sierra Leone home town on International Women’s Day

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Foreign Secretary will use a trip to his mother’s home town in Sierra Leone on International Women’s Day to announce his department’s updated approach to helping women and girls globally. James Cleverly will travel to Bo in the West African country, where he will visit a school and a hospital to see how UK-funded projects are offering targeted assistance to women and girls. We’re ramping up our work to tackle the inequalities which remain, at every opportunity Foreign Secretary James Cleverly The visit on Wednesday will see the Cabinet minister unveil a strategy aimed at tackling increasing threats to gender equality, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said. “We’re ramping up our work to tackle the inequalities which remain, at every opportunity.” While at a hospital in Bo, Mr Cleverly will see how UK support is improving blood banks and equipment, increasing electricity access and saving the lives of pregnant women.