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Our health care is broken, our future leaders are dieing every day because of their parents can't afford health care insurances for them. How can we fix our health care services?
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Children are our hope,they are our future nation builders so they need to be taken care of. Our children are expose to: Child labor, Sexual Abuse and Neglects What are we expecting our world leaders to do in other to solve this problem Domestic violence
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Children before where seen and not hard. They we not allowed to take participate on matters relating to them. So what is the important for child participation
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Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone is a small, coastal country in West Africa situated between Guinea and Liberia
Capital: Freetown
Government type: Constitutional democracy
President:
Ernest Bai Koroma
(All People's Congress)
Independence:
27 April 1961 from United Kingdom
Population: 6,294,774 (July 2008 est.)
Ethnic groups:
20 African ethnic groups : Temne 30%, Mende 30%, other 30%. Descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area in the late-18th century, called Creole (Krio) 10% Refugees from Liberia's recent civil war, small numbers of Europeans, Lebanese, Pakistanis, and Indians
Religions:
Muslim 60%, Christian 10%, indigenous beliefs 30%
Official Language: English
Climate: Tropical; hot and humid. Sierra Leone is one of western Africas wettest countries.
Highest point: Loma Mansa 1,948 m
Exports: Diamonds, rutile, cocoa, coffee, fish
$216 million f.o.b. (2006)
Imports: Foodstuffs, machinery and equipment, fuels and lubricants, chemicals
$560 million f.o.b. (2006)
Debt - external: $1.61 billion (2003 est.)
Roadways:
Total: 11,300 km
Paved: 904 km
Unpaved: 10,396 km (2002)
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Children's Agenda-International is an organization committed to advocate, lobby, raise funds and provide support to children in war and post war countries
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Palm Out Poverty
All For Africa Promo Video from allforafrica on Vimeo.
Hi Everyone! We just wanted to post this very inspiring video about efforts being made by an organization called Palm Out Poverty - we hope to be able to perhaps do an interview with this organization during our fall/winter radio broadcasting.
In Sustainable Solidarity
Dandarius Continue
Posted by Dandarius Cavallaro on September 23, 2009 at 3:00pm
Girl’s Rights Abused by Uncle in Freetown Sierra Leone
Fatmata Kamara, an 8-year old girl, has reportedly been beaten to coma by her uncle, Mohamed Boe Kamara. The teenage girl is said to have suffered serious injuries in the process. According to reports, Fatmata sustained several wounds on her neck and entire body. Fatmata’s father is dead and her mother is reported to be resident in Guinea. Fatmata was beaten on the grounds that she failed to return home quickly than expected after she left for the nea… Continue
Posted by CAI Team on June 18, 2009 at 9:00am
Boy Six Sacrificed for Diamonds
News credit: Awareness Times Newspaper in Freetow… Continue
Posted by CAI Team on June 16, 2009 at 1:30am — 2 Comments
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