strategies in delivering community based maternal and newborn health care in Kenya and Sierra Leon. According to Gilbert Wangalwa‚ child death has decreased globally from 12.5million in 1990 to 8.8 million in 2008‚ of this figure one third were neonatal death of which has been linked closely to the slow progress in reduction of maternal mortality; approximately 342‚900 maternal death each year. In Kenya and Sierra Leone just like other sub Saharan African countries the rate of child and maternal mortality
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Long Way Gone Study Guide / Discussion Questions / Writing Assignment Suggestions Chapter Questions: Chapter One: What did the old man in Kabati mean when he said‚ “We must strive to be like the moon”? Is this advice that could apply to you? Why or why not? Chapter Two: Beah moves around in time as he tells his story‚ flashing forward and backward. What is the effect of this technique? Do you appreciate it‚ or would you prefer that he stuck to strict chronology? Why or why not? Chapter Three:
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Summary of the Novel As an old woman‚ Aminata Diallo is brought to London‚ England‚ in 1802‚ by abolitionists who are petitioning to end the slave trade. As she awaits an audience with King George‚ she recounts her remarkable life on paper‚ beginning with her life in Bayo‚ in western Africa‚ prior to being abducted from her family at age 11‚ seeing the death of her mother and father‚ and being marched in a coffle of captives to the coast along with others from her village. Chekura‚ a boy of similar
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long term friend and mining entrepreneur‚ Abigail Jallow‚ who has made a fortune mining copper has contacted him about a new opportunity. The proposition is that he could set up his own company and take over a proposed gold mining opportunity in Sierra Leone. At present the opportunity is in its early exploration stages. It was an opportunity Abigail came across while prospecting for copper but she does not feel she has the time to take it further. So far the current indicated mineral resource
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Money is the root of evil. A Long Way Gone and The Bite of the Mango are both memoirs of the Sierra Leone Civil War. Although the book does not touch upon the causes of the civil war‚ through research diamonds were a main contributor and a cause of the war. Sierra Leone was embedded with diamonds and other luxurious stones‚ thus making it a gargantuan mining center. Diamonds caused tensions between the government and rebellious citizens‚ contributed to the emergence of the Revolutionary United
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of war. Every state is trying to acquire these resources and to do this they are not hesitant to make any move; no matter what the consequences are. Conflicts over diamonds started in early 80s in Angola‚ the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Sierra Leone and then spread to different countries across Africa. The social‚ political and economic conditions started depending upon the mining activities of diamond. The paper argues that Diamond Conflicts are blamed for most of the unrest that has been
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she obtained her M.D. in 1981‚ Jemison interned at Los Angeles County/University of Southern California Medical Center and later worked as a general practitioner. For the next two and a half years‚ she was the area Peace Corps medical officer for Sierra Leone and Liberia where she also taught and did medical research. • Following her return to the United States in 1985‚ Jemison made a career change and decided to follow a dream she had nurtured for a long time. In October of that year‚ she applied
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KENYATTA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS DEPARTMENT OF THEATER ARTS AND FILM UNIT NAME: KENYAN FILM CODE: MTF 519 Paper title: Criticism and reviews of the film Blood Diamond PAPER PRESENTED BY; MICHAEL NJERU NYAGA REG : M66/CE/22669/2010 To: Dr. S. M . Otieno April 2012 Blood Diamond. Introduction
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process. Solomon was a fisherman but was later caught by the radical to be a diamond miner. He has always dreamed that his son‚ Dia Vandy will be a doctor. Unfortunately‚ it was shattered when the Revolutionary United Front (RUF)‚ a rebel group in Sierra Lone invaded his village. While working in the mine‚ Solomon found a huge pink diamond and hides it. Solomon’s action was later saw by the commandant but before he could capture Solomon‚ the rebels were attacked and arrested by the African army. During
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Environmental Ethics Essay Following the beginning of the industrial revolution‚ various environmentalists and philosophers began to speak out about our relationship with nature‚ and how we should treat it. Each person views differ but there is no doubt that all impacted the environmentalists of the future. This essay will look at three main players in environmental ethics: Immanuel Kant‚ Aldo Leopold and John Muir. All three of these men had different arguments for preserving the earth‚ and
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