Saturday, June 23, 2012

Moving towards the Direction of the US Strategy for Africa- Who will join Khadarlis For Sierra Leone to liberate a

Moving  towards the direction of the  US Strategy for Africa, Who will join  Khadarlis For Sierra Leone  to  liberate a  people in dire need of help to survive?

" Some people got everything, Some people got nothing, Some people got hopes and dreams and some people have ways and means" says the song writer, Bob Nesta Marley.
Sometimes I wonder why people in the preferred category in the song writer's saying really get excited about initiatives such as the Khadarlis for Sierra Leone with a passion to help the government and the people of Sierra Leone to fight against poverty and underdevelopment, yet hardly reach out to help in its cause.
The other day my friend was sharing with me one of the latest songs that have been composed by a Sierra Leonean musician and now sung on the streets of Freetown and other parts of the Country.
The song according to him depicts the extreme poverty that is grounding the lives of a nation to a halt. The word in the song is "fehlee" and its equivalent cannot be found in the English dictionary! It simply means in the  Mende Language- lack of the basic necessities of life (such as food, clothing or access to health or education) and the hopelessness and pessimism in getting any near to these basic human rights! What an irony for a nation that is said to be recovering from a brutal conflict!
If a society's socio-economic temperature is said to be measured by  the barometer of what their contemporary musicians have to say, then Sierra Leone is a nation at war with itself; this time though, it is not a civil war but a war to combat or at least alleviate poverty by the year 2015 as visioned in the Millinium Development Goals.
Poverty is eating into the fabric of the Sierra Leonean society and Khadarlis For Sierra Leone is on the move!
In consanance with President Barak Obama's June 14th,2012  Statement on "the role of the Private Sector and the Humanitarian and Development Community in putting structures in place that can reach out to vulnerable groups in remote parts of Africa", Khadarlis for Sierra Leone is at the vanguard of such Presidential policy statements.
Today, Khadarlis For Sierra Leone is registerred both in the USA and in Sierra Leone and our mandate is to push the President's agenda forward and at the same time complement the efforts of the Sierra Leonean government by collaborating and networking with donor agencies and proactively respond to calls for proposals in the areas of Education, Health, Water and Sanitation, Agriculture, Infrastructural Development, Youth Empowerment and Community Development initiatives generally; while at  the same time  soliciting funding for local projects here in the US for Capacity Building, Provision of computers for our computer space, as well as fund raising activities for our programs.
Please do what you can, support, educate, empower, even a small gesture of compassion could bring a pleasant change.

1 comment:

  1. Hi Khadarlis, I've got so much to say on this matter . . . and I've got my ideas in the book "Africa's Message to Obama."
    http://www.amazon.com/Re-Member-Africa-accelerated-political-unification/dp/1463720084/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
    I believe we must unite to help Africa and that's it.

    -Temi

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