many things that I would have never gotten the chance to do if I would have stayed in Sierra Leone. This makes me wonder‚ how different my life would have been. Think about how your life was when you were ten years old. For the majority of kids‚ the most important thing they had to worry about was if they did all their homework that night or if they would start in a basketball or soccer game. For me‚ in Sierra Leone in the late 90’s‚ it was whether I could survive another hour of the atrocities that
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implementation weaknesses of the Disarmament‚ Demobilization‚ and Reintegration (DDR) program in Sierra Leone. She used the reintegration program for female soldiers in Sierra Leone as a case because the Sierra Leone’s DDR process is one of the interventions purported to empower both female and male ex-combatants. My primary interest
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The Bite of the Mango is the true story of Mariatu Kamara‚ a girl born in Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone‚ an impoverished country on the west coast of Africa‚ was in a horrific civil war while Mariatu was a child. Despite the poverty in her tiny rural village‚ Mariatu’s first few years are happy ones‚ filled with friends‚ games and chores. Mariatu’s father has two wives‚ neither of whom seems very pleasant. Mariatu is given to an auntie to raise‚ which likely would have been a great idea had the village
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Project Title: ‘Supporting the reinforcement of the ban on Child FGM through the provision of alternative livelihoods to vulnerable women to support social change at grass root level’ Name and Position of Representative: Hawa Samai-Chief Executive Officer Email address: amnet.sl@gmail‚com Total Amount Requested: AMNet and Partners: UN WOMEN: Target Location: Western Area No of beneficiaries: Direct: 200 Indirect:20000-Girls and parents Date of Submission: 14th July 2012
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What are conflict diamonds? Conflict diamonds – also known as blood diamonds – are diamonds that are used to fuel violent conflict and human rights abuses. They have funded brutal wars in Liberia‚ Sierra Leone‚ Angola‚ Democratic Republic of Congo and Côte d’Ivoire that have resulted in the death and displacement of millions of people. Diamonds have also been used by terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda to finance their activities and for money-laundering purposes. Did someone Die for that Diamond
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September 10 2014 As of September 2014‚ a total of 4507 confirmed and probable cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD)‚ as well as 2296 deaths from the virus‚ had been reported from five countries in West Africa — Guinea‚ Liberia‚ Nigeria‚ Senegal‚ and Sierra Leone. In terms of reported morbidity and mortality‚ the current epidemic of EVD is far larger than all previous epidemics combined. The true numbers of cases and deaths are certainly higher. There are numerous reports of symptomatic persons evading
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process. In 1958‚ Ansel received a third guggenheim grant for his creative work. During the late 1940’s‚ Ansel went on numerous trips to take pictures of all the national parks in the United States. From 1936 to 1970‚ Ansel was the director of the Sierra Club‚ which presented him in 1963 with a John Muirn Award. In 1968 he was the recipient of the Conservation Service award of the Interior
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Chinese Immigration and the Building of the Railroad Long ago‚ people needed to get across the country. They didn’t have cars and plains‚ so they used trains. Before the trains‚ they had wagon trails‚ which were slow to use. In the 1800’s‚ workers in the USA started building a train from Nebraska to the west while California built a railroad toward the east. The work building the railroad was hard. Since not enough men in the area wanted this hard construction work‚ the railroad companies
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Dannie Roettger POL/215 December 4‚ 2012 John Derie Elements that Influence State Government The special interest group we are going to look at is the Sierra Club. The sierra club is a body of volunteers that come together to fight for the environment. This interest group has offices in every state in the union. As we look at the Sierra Club in whole we will describe what this organization stands for and try to define its relationship two each of the political parties and lastly we will look
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Mining of Rough Diamonds in Sierra Leone “CREATING A FUTURE – GIVING NEW MEANING TO SUSTAINABILITY IN MINING” BUSINESS PLAN Page 1 Sierra Credit Repository Xchange (SCRX) Sierra Leone Limited Business Plan List of Contents OPENING STATEMENTS PAGE 3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3 INTRODUCTION 3 Legal Structure of SCRX 4 Why Diamonds? 4 History of Sierra Leone Diamonds 4 Diamond Market 6 The Government Role 6 Historical Context of the Diamond
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