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John Abu-Kpawoh was born in Gbama, Jaiama Bongor Chiefdom, Bo District. He was in China for nine years, where he did his Masters degree and obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree. He returned home in September 2002. Since then, he has been attached to Njala University, in the Institute of Home Sciences. [Nov. 2007]

Farid Raymond Anthony is a Barrister (England and Wales - non-practicing), Barrister and Solicitor, Commissioner for Oaths, Notary Public, Republic of Sierra Leone; Barrister and Solicitor of the Appellate Courts, Republic of The Gambia; and Member of the Immigration Law Practitioners' Association (England). He was called to the Bar in England in 1963. He was an immigration consultant in Gillingham, Kent, U.K., but is now retired.  He is the author of "Questions and Answers on Immigration to Britain" and "Sawpit Boy," and his third book, "Stories From Sierra Leone," which was published in the U.K. in December 2003.  [Nov. 2008]

Vicki Armstrong was a Peace Corps Volunteer (Community Development) in Mabonto from 1965 to 1967. She now lives in Littleton, Colorado, U.S.A. [Nov. 2008]

Scott Auwarter was a Peace Corps Volunteer (Health) in Kamakwie from 1984 to 1986. [Nov. 2008]

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Abu Bakarr Bah was born in Kono. He did his undergraduate studies at Sofia University in Bulgaria. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the New School for Social Research in New York. He is currently a professor in the sociology department at Northern Illinois University, USA. He is the author of Breakdown and Reconstitution: Democracy, the Nation-State, and Ethnicity in Nigeria (Lexington Books, 2005). [Dec. 2008]

Chernor C. "Masco" Bangura was born in a very small village called Ropolon on the 3rd of June 1972. This village is situated 3 km off the main highway at Rolal-soso between Magbelay Ferry bridge and Gberray Junction in the Marampa Chiefdom (Lunsar), Port Loko District, Northern Province. Masco, as he is commonly called, started his education at the District Education Committee (D.E.C.) Primary School at Makargbo, a village 5 km from Ropolon, in 1979. He continued at the Rural Education Committee (R.E.C.) Primary School in Benguema Barracks at Waterloo from 1980 to 1985 academic years. He did his secondary school education at the St. Murialdo Secondary School from 1985 to 1991. He taught at his alma mater (Murialdo Secondary School) from 1992 to 1996. He taught under the principalship of a benevolent priest late Rev. Fr. Anthony Macullan. Chernor went for further studies at the Milton Margai College of Education (MMCE) in the academic years 1996 to 1999. After his education as a secondary school teacher at MMCE he taught at the Government Rokel Secondary School in Freetown in the academic years 1999 to 2001 whilst also doing part time teaching at the Leo Preparatory Private School at Kingharman Road. He terminated his teaching service and took employment at the Organisation for Research and Extension of Intermediate Technology (OREINT); a local NGO in Freetown from 2001 to February 2004. While executing his duties as a field development officer at OREINT, he also engaged himself into a correspondent course. A Commonwealth Youth Diploma in Youth in Development Work with the University of Legon in Ghana affiliated to the University of Sierra Leone, Fourah Bay College (F.B.C. INSTADEX). He studied at Volvo Cars Institute in Gothenburg to become a car manufacture. He is presently in Sweden working in one of Volvo cars largest production factory as a car manufacturer. [Nov. 2007]

Dr. Mohamed Yamba Bangura, popularly known as M.Y.Bangura, is a teacher, trainer, and consultant in Training, Education and Development. M.Y.Bangura holds a Doctorate degree in Management, Executive Masters in Business Administration, Masters in Development studies, B.Sc Honours in Sociology, Diploma in Higher English and a Teachers Certificate. Born in Yoni Chiefdom, Tonkolili District, Northern Province of Sierra Leone. He attended the UMC Primary School-Rochen Kamandao, Yonibana Secondary School-Yonibana, the Freetown Teachers College-Freetown, the Fourah Bay College-then University of Sierra Leone, and the St.Clements University-British West Indies. He started as a Laboratory assisatant/teacher of the Yonibana Secondary School, taught in some primary schools in Freetown, worked in the former Paramount Hotel near State House in Freetown, and joined the Senior Staff Association of the Milton Margai College of Education and Technology (MMCET)-Goderich campus in 1999/2000 as Assistant Lecturer. In 2002, he became Lecturer, and Senior Lecturer in 2004. He took a leave of absence from the MMCET in 2006 to undertake additional international pursuits. Within 2002 to 2006, he had worked as a visiting lecturer to the St.Clements University-Freetown campus and Course Director of Development Studies distance education programs through the St.Clements University at the international level. In 2005, he became overseas consultant for the Stratford College of Management-U.K. and in May 2007 to date he is serving as Deputy Registrar of the same college. [Nov. 2007]

Osman Barrie was born in Kamakwie, Bombali District in 1972 . He attended St. Francis Secondary School in Makeni. He graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Civil Engineering from Fourah Bay College in 1996. He received a Master of Science degree in Water Resources Engineering from the University of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania in 1998 and a Master of Science degree in Transportation Engineering from the City College of New York (City University of New York) in 2000. He is a licensed Professional Engineer and a licensed Professional Traffic Operations Engineer in the States of New York and New Jersey. He worked as a Transit Systems Analyst with the New York City Transit Authority from May 1999 to June 2000 and as a Senior Transportation Engineer with Schoor Depalma Engineers and Design Professionals Inc. in Manalapan, New Jersey from June 2000 to November 2005. He is currently working as a Project Manager with Nelson & Pope Engineers and Surveyors in Melville, Long Island, New York. He is aslo a part-time professor of Mathematics at Monroe College in New York City. [Dec. 2008]

Richard Barrows worked as a a Peace Corps Volunteer (Agriculture) in Giema and Kamabai. He is Professor and Associate Vice Chancellor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison. [Dec. 2007]

Carol Benson, Ph.D (UCLA 1994) was a primary teacher trainer with Peace Corps in Masiaka (Mile 47) from 1980 to 1982. She was a recruiter in San Francisco from 1983 to 1985, and later trained volunteers in Dominican Republic, Guinea-Bissau, and Cape Verde. She currently works as an educational developer at the Centre for Teaching and Learning at Stockholm University in Sweden, as well as doing research and consulting in mother tongue-based education in multilingual countries. Her latest projects are in Vietnam and Mozambique. [Nov. 2008]

John Birchall worked as a VSO in the Ports Authority and other posts from 1971 - 73. Since then he has regularly visited Sierra Leone and has worked on various education projects. His future projects should include working with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Education and the building of a health centre in Pejewa near Pujehun. [Nov. 2008] 

Lansana Boima was born in Freetown . He attended the R.C. Model Primary School and Christ the King College , both in Bo Town. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and Social Sciences from Fourah Bay College in 1991. he was a soccer referee with SLFA between 1986 and 1997. He has worked for the Sierra Leone Red Cross, the Central Bank, British Council, Public Admin International and Adam Smith International. He is married and lives at Regent Village , Greater Freetown, with his wife and five children. [Nov. 2008]

Richard "Ric" Bond was a VSO volunteer at the agriculture station in Torma Bum from 1971 to 1972, then in the Planning and Development Unit (ODA) of MANR to 1975 on Tower Hill Freetown. He is married to Catherine (nee McAnulty) ex-VSO of Lunsar Mission Hospital and Serabu Mission Hospital 1973 to 1975. They have three daughters. He is a Research Fellow at Manchester University and does freelance consultancy in Rural Development. [Nov. 2007]

Sr. Lois Anne Bordowitz, an F.C.J. Sister, worked at the Pastoral Centre in Kenema from 1984 to 1994. She now lives in Toronto, Canada and works with refugees. [Nov. 2008]

Rebecca Busselle and her husband, Sam Busselle, served as Peace Corps Volunteers in Bo from 1972 to 1975, and lived on Gerihun Road with their three children. Sam was area architect for the Southern Province, Ministry of Works, while Rebecca organized the Bo Workshop, for the Ministry of Trade and Industry. Their son Wynne attended Christ the King College, while Max and Katrina attended nursery and primary schools in Bo. Sam now consults for not-for-profits in Poughkeepsie, NY, and Rebecca is a writer doing work in New York City. Wynne works in New York and lives with his wife and children in Westchester County. Max and his family are in Pasadena, California, while Katrina, her husband and their twins can be found in Brooklyn. [Nov. 2008]

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Dave Carmean was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Bumbuna, Tonkolili District, from 1980 to 1982, teaching Science and Agriculture at St. Matthews Secondary School. He trained as an evolutionary entomologist (U.C. Davis) and now works on databases and computer support for the Biology Department at Simon Fraser University. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with Mary Berbee and son Brian. [Nov. 2008]

Hubert Charles was born in Freetown and attended Methodist Boys' High School from Form 1 to Upper 6th, where he was Head Boy and Chairman of the Debating Society during his final year. He received his BA from Fourah Bay College, a Diploma in Social Work from Mindolo Ecumenical Foundation (Zambia), a Postgraduate Diploma in Development Administration and an MA (ECON) in Economics and Management in Rural Development from the University of Manchester. He was previously the Country Director for CAUSE Canada Sierra Leone Programme in Freetown. He is now Country Director for Christian Children's Fund in Ethiopia. Hubert has excellent conceptual knowledge of social development and emergency humanitarian themes and significant experience in the implementation and management of social development and emergency programmes with emphasis on strategic planning, capacity building and institutional development, and post- war recovery. He is a member of a number of a number of professional bodies, including the Commonwealth Association for the Education and Training of Adults (CAETA) and the Sierra Leone Adult Education Association (SLADEA). He is a past President of the Methodist Boys' High School Old Boys' Association. [Nov. 2008]

Jeff Cochrane was a rice extension agent with te Peace Corps in Sierra Leone from 1980 to 1982. He later did research in Freetown markets in 1991 for his doctorate in agricultural economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, then continued his research through a Fulbight Fellowship at Fourah Bay College in from 1994 to 1995. Since 2005 he has served as Regional Economist for USAID/West Africa, based in Accra, and is Chief of the West Africa Trade and Investment Office, promoting exports from Sierra Leone and other West African countries to the U.S.A. His current tour of duty there ends in 2009. [Nov. 2007]

Dr. Ernest Cole was born in the east end of Freetown, Sierra Leone . He attended the Wellington Municipal Primary School and later the Methodist Boys' High School, Kissy Mess Mess, where he did both the Ordinary and Advanced levels General Certificate of Education Examinations. In June 1986, he left the Methodist Boys' High School for Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone; after functioning as the Senior Prefect of the school. At Fourah Bay College, he pursued the Bachelor of Arts program in English and eventually graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Honours degree in English Language and Literature in 1990. In that same year, he was invited to join the teaching staff of the English Department at Fourah Bay College as Research Teaching Assistant, a position he held till September 1994 when he graduated with a Master of Arts degree in African Literature. In 1994, he was promoted to the position of Lecturer, Department of English, Fourah Bay College. At the outbreak of the civil war in Sierra Leone, he left for The Gambia and took up appointment at The Gambia College, Brikama, as Senior Lecturer and Head of English. At the commencement of the University of The Gambia, he was appointed Lecturer in the Department of English in September 2000. In 2003, he embarked on a Ph.D program in English in Post-Colonial Literature at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, U.S.A. In 2008, he graduated with a Ph.D. and is now Assistant Professor of English at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. He is married to Everetta Cole (nee Palmer) formerly of Methodist Girls' High School and the Institute of Library Science , Fourah Bay College. They have two daughters, Ernesta and Tunde Cole. [May 2008]

Rowland J.V. Cole attended the Prince of Wales and Albert Academy in Freetown. He holds an LLB(Hons) obtained from Fourah Bay College University of Sierra Leone and an LLM obtained from the University of South Africa. He was in private practice in Freetown Sierra Leone and lectured law part-time at Fourah Bay College. He is currently a Senior Magistrate in Mahalapye, Botswana. He spends his spare time writing and publishing poetry and scholarly articles. [Jan. 2008]

Seltzer Cole was born in London and moved with his family to Freetown when he was nine. He returned to the U.K. aged 20. Following university, he worked in broadcasting and consulting before co-founding a digital media company. He then went on to create a new media and publishing business, Fizz Media. He is publisher and editor of The SASS Guides and founder of the New Launch Network. [Dec. 2007]

Millah Conteh was born in Makeni, went to St. Francis Sec. School, Makeni and later Albert Academy at GCSEs and Prince of Wales for A Levels. He won a scholarship to study in Poland in 1981. He returned to Sierra Leone in 1987, worked as a Mathematics teacher at Annie Walsh Memorial School during part of 1987, the Ministry of Energy and Power as a Water Engineer, water division between 1988-1990 and a Civil Engineer during 1990-91 for the electricity division. He travelled to Norway (1991) and USA (1991 to 1995). In the USA, Milla worked for the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission and Century Technologies Inc. in Maryland USA as a GIS specialist. For family reasons, Milla moved-on to England where he worked for Thames Water Utilities Ltd, Reading UK and Kent Water Services, Snodland, Kent, UK as a Network Modelling Engineer. Milla holds degrees and diplomas in Engineering, CADD, Management, Information Technology and Education. Today, Milla is a lecturer in Management and ICT at Bexley College of FE/HE in Kent, UK and director of Conteh Elektriks, a company that seeks to bring machines, technology and cultivate entrepreneurship in Sierra Leone using Open Source business models. [Oct. 2007]

Samuel Sarrah Conteh was born and grew up in Makontande, Mabonto, Tonkolili District. He attended the Government Secondary School for Boys-Magburaka from 1981 to 1989. He studied computer programming in Sierra Leone and currently is based in Tyre City, Lebanon, where he is attached to the United Nations - Department of Peacekeeping Operations as Information Technology Assistant doing computer networking and applications support. He has done the same, for the United Nations in Sierra Leone with UNOMSIL and UNAMSIL (September 1998 to June 2000), East Timor (July 2000 to June 2002), Afghanistan (June 2002 to June 2005), Western Sahara/Morocco (June 2005 to June 2007), and now in Lebanon (June 2007 to to date). [Nov. 2008]

Malcolm S. E. Coomber lives in Freetown, where he is Chief Accountant for the Freetown Cold Storage Co. He attended Sierra Leone Grammar School.  [Nov. 2008]

Walter G. Coppenrath, Jr. taught African History and African Geography at Schlenker Secondary School in Port Loko from 1968 to 1970 as a Peace Corps Volunteer. He is currently a trial attorney specializing in complex business and maritime litigation in Los Angeles/Long Beach (UCLA Law School) with the law firm of Coppenrath & Associates. He is Of Counsel to the law firm of Pierro Associati in Rome, Italy. He is regular Visiting Lecturer at the International Development Law Institute in Rome, Italy. Walter has remained very interested in Africa. He climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro with his son Walter III in 1997 and toured Mali extensively in January 2006 with his daughter Kellie. He taught a course on Mediation and Arbitration to the judges of Swaziland in 2004 for IDLO. He has also visited Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar and South Africa. He currently lives half of each year in Montisi, Italy, located in southern Tuscany and the other half in Los Angeles. Walter and his wife Suzanne have two children. Their son, Walter III, is a physician. He graduated from UCLA Medical School and is currently in Los Angeles working as a community medicine fellow for Kaiser Permanente with an emphasis on health care for the homeless. Their daughter, Kellie, is a graduate of Occidental College in Los Angeles with a degree in International Relations and is currently living in New Delhi, India working in microfinance. [Nov. 2008]

Joan Marie (Geick) Cortes was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Koribundo from 1974 to 1976 where she taught mathematics, geography and physical education and was also Games Mistress. She is currently working for Caterpillar, Inc. in Miami, Florida, U.S.A. She lived in Uruguay for seven years teaching missionary children, where she met her husband. [Nov. 2008]

Tamara Cummings-John was born in London and went to Freetown as a child. She remained there for nine years, and attended the Akibo Betts School . She lived in London for most of her life, and studied French at Manchester University and law at the College of Law Store Street. She lived in East Africa for 6 years working in advertising and subsequently for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. She recently completed an 18 month stint in Sierra Leone working for the Office of the Prosecutor at the Special Court. She currently lives in London, but spends time in Freetown where she runs a business, Diaspora Bookshop & Cafe. [Nov. 2008]

Kiran Cunningham is currently a professor of anthropology at Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan, U.S.A. She attended Njala University College from 1981 to 1982, and returned to Sierra Leone for a year in 1988 to 1989 to conduct her dissertation research on women, marriage and power. While there, she also did some research, informally, for the Inland Valley Swamp Development Project coordinated by the FAO, UNDP, and MANR&F. [Nov. 2008]

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Myles Dannhausen was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Freetown from 1964 to 1966. During his first year he was a teacher at the Albert Academy. During his second year he worked at the Sierra Leone Central Statistics Office (now Statistics Sierra Leone), and wrote a History of Education in Sierra Leone for later Peace Corps Volunteers. Myles returned to the United States and earned a Masters Degree in Urban Studies at Loyola University in Chicago. After a few years as an executive with the City of Chicago Mayor's office, Myles left city life to start a tourism career in Wisconsin. Myles currently operates the Bay Point Inn in Egg Harbor, Wisconsin, and is also the manager of Husby's food & Spirits in Sister Bay, WI, where Groundnut Stew is often one of the dinner specials. [Mar. 2008]

Mohamed S. Dauda, MD was born in Jaiama Nimikoro, Kono District. He attended the UMC primary school, Jaiama, and eventually Koidu Secondary School (1980 to 1982), Christ the King College, Bo (1982-85), and Prince of Wales, Freetown (1988 to 1990). He then studied medicine at the College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, USL (1990 to 1997). He was Secretary-General of the students union (1991 to 1992). He pursued further training at the Brooklyn Hospital Center Family Medicine program (2004 to 2007). He was Chief Resident of the program (2006 to 2007). He is now working as a board certified family physician with Eastern North Carolina Medical Group in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, U.S.A. [Nov. 2008]

Pliney Davies was born in Freetown, and lived most of her life at Wallace-Johnson Street (formerly Water Street) in front of King Jimmy Market and, before relocating to the U.S., at Cannon Street. She attended Freetown Secondary School for Girls at Brookfields from nursery school to Form 6. She is a former employee of Barclays Bank Sierra Leone Ltd. Currently, she lives in Maryland, U.S.A. and works in Washington, D.C.  [Nov. 2008]

Paul Delaney is a retired elementary school teacher who has worked with his colleagues and students to assist a school and an orphanage in Port Loko. The project began in 1992. He first visited Sierra Leone in 1976 as a tourist, and then took part in teaching a summer course at MMTC in 1988. In 2005 he visited the town of Port Loko, saw the new school that the Canadians are building, visited the orphanage, and was made a Division Chief - Pa Alimamy Kamaranka I. He was recently given a Benemerenti Papal medal for his work in Port Loko. Currently he acts as a resource person, and is helping with a project in Bunumbu. [Nov. 2008]

Idris ShuaibuDin-Gabisi was born in and had lived in Fourah Bay in Freetown for over twenty years. He graduated from Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, in 2001 with a Bachelor of Arts (General). At present, he is working with the National Electoral Commission as District Electoral Officer in Bombali District. He lives in Makeni. [Dec. 2007]

Bernie Dodge served as a Peace Corps volunteer teaching math at Bonthe Secondary School from 1970 to 1972. He is now a professor of Educational Technology at San Diego State University in San Diego, California. [Nov. 2008]

Joseph A. Dougall was engaged in sponsoring tobacco growing in various countries in the sub region with his team of Sierra Leone experts, where they have made a name for themselves and for the company, Duiker International Corporation, out of Sierra Leone, during the time of turmoil in their homeland. This was brought to an end in the year 2000. He was made Honorary P.C. Pa Almamy Dougal Bangura in Sella Limba Chiefdom in December 1993. He currently resides in Malta, where he is Honorary Consul for Sierra Leone. [Nov. 2008]

Dr. Alex C. Dunn attended Prince of Wales School from 1966 to 1973 and Fourah Bay College from 1973 to 1976. Alex was an Electrical /Instrument Engineer at the Sierra Leone Petroleum Refinery from 1978 to 1981, when he left to pursue a master's degree at the University of Aston in Birmingham, U.K. Alex has lived in the United States since 1983, with career as Control Systems Engineer / Sr. Project Manager at Shell, Honeywell, Setpoint, Inc., W. K. Kellogg and Ciba-Geigy. Alex obtained his doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Houston, Texas, and currently lives in Cypress, Texas, U.S.A. Alex is now the manager of the Advanced Solutions Group at Yokogawa corporation of America, where he is charged with leading a $25MM business aimed at changing Yokogawa’s image in North America from a products supplier to Solutions provider in the ‘plan & execute’, ‘direct & operate’, and track, analyze & inform’ space. Alex has also launched ‘AfriTek, Inc., www.afritek.biz ’ in Freetown with the goal of providing energy optimization focused and other engineering solutions to businesses in West Africa. [Nov. 2008]

Charles During was born in Chester, England. At an early age he moved backed to Freetown where he attended St Anthony's Primary School, Prince of Wales and KSS in Kenema. He played both volleyball and basketball both at school and for Sierra Leone's national teams. He returned to London where he completed his Bachelors degree in Mathematics and Computing. He worked for SmithKline Beechams for several years, then left to play professional volleyball in Belgium, Holland, France and Switzerland while he continued working in the computing industry. He worked for IBM as a consultant for several years in Holland and was transferred to IBM in Tampa Florida. He gained his Masters in Computer Science, and worked for VISA International in California for seven years. In 2004 he left Visa and went to AlcatelBell in Belgium as a consultant. He is back in Boca Raton, Florida, consulting for IBM in Hollywood, Florida. Whilst living in London, he played volleyball for the top British teams, such as Polonia and Malory. He was Captain for the England Men's National Volleyball Team for ten years , and captained the Great Britain Men's Volleyball Team for the World Students Games in the then Yugoslavia. [Nov. 2007]

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Glenn Elert was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Kamakwie from 1987 to 1990, where he taught physics and mathematics. [Nov. 2008]

Sybella (Davies) Ellong is from Wilberforce and has lived in the U.S. since 1976. She currently works for the IBM Corporation in Washington, D.C. She attended the Cathedral School for Girls and the Methodist Girls' High School in Freetown. [Nov. 2008]

Janice England was a Lay Mission Helper in Makeni from 1989 to 1993. She currently is the Executive Director of the Lay Mission-Helpers Association in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. [Nov. 2008]

Thomas Eric-Williams is from Freetown and attended Kenema Secondary School, Bo School, and Georgetown University. He is retired from the United States Army Intelligence Command and lives in Lanham, Maryland, U.S.A. [Nov. 2008]

Kenneth A. Evans served as a Peace Corps Volunteer primary school teacher from 1969 to 1971 in Jimmi Bagbo. He also helped organize and conduct educational workshops with Sierra Leonean teachers and other PCVs. He is a graduate of Clark University, Worcester, MA, with a BA degree. He currently resides in northeastern Connecticut and is production manager of a weekly advertising publication serving the tri-state region. [Nov. 2008]

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Aiah Fanday was born in Koidu Town, Kono District on June 30, 1968. He grew up in Kissy, Freetown, and attended Prince of Wales Secondary School from 1980/81 to 1985. After graduation in 1985 he left for England, lived there for a year, then traveled to the U.S. in 1986. He is currently own and managed his owe company DISTINCTIVE EVENTS RENTAL located in Gaithersburg, Maryland. He is the past president of the Kono Union USA (KONUSA) and currently serving on the Friends of Sierra Leone (FOSL) as Vice President. He is also the Financial Secretary for the National Organization for Sierra Leoneans in North America (NOSLINA). He his the Founder and Fund Raising Committee Chair for Kono Foundation. He graduated from the University of Maryland in 1999, with a B.Sc. in Business Management, and Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from the same university in 2005. [Nov. 2008]

Dave Figi was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Moyamba, and taught at Harford School for Girls and Moyamba Boys' School from 1965 to 1967. He now lives in Janesville, Wisconsin, U.S.A. He retired from teaching in 2004 and participated in Operation Classroom in Makeni in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008.  [Nov. 2008]

Judy (Lamm) Figi was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Moyamba, and taught at Harford School for Girls from 1964 to 1966. She now lives with her husband, Dave Figi, in Janesville, Wisconsin, U.S.A. Their daughter Alison served in the Peace Corps Volunteer in Micronesia. She retired from teaching in 2004 and participated in Operation Classroom in Makeni in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. [Nov. 2008]

Chad and Susan Finer Susan and Chad Finer were Peace Corps volunteers from 1968-70 and were secondary and teacher’s training college teachers at HRSS in Kenema and at the Kenema Teacher’s Training College. After a long career in public education in New Hampshire and a 23 year stint as a middle school principal Susan retired in June of 2007. She returned briefly as an interim assistant middle school principal in New York City. Chad is still working as an ER physician but since November 2007 has gone to a part-time position. Both are excited Obama supporters. They currently live in Vermont. [Nov. 2008]

Kwame Henry "Cumale" Fitzjohn. While at Fourah Bay College among the hills and breezy meadows of Mount Aureol, Kwame 'Cumale' Fitzjohn's writing and journalism career took off. He has been Washington Correspondent for the BBC World Service for Africa, and commentator on such media as CNN and the Voice of America. Kwame hosted The African Magazine TV Show on MHz, Virginia Public Television in the U.S., and is currently a Washington D.C. Tour Guide and Instructor for A to Z Supplemental Educational Services Provider of the U.S. Federal Government. He graduated in Communications Studies from the University of Maryland. A Diaspora community organizer, Kwame has served on the Board of Friends of Sierra Leone, and is former Executive Director of NOSLINA, the National Organization of Sierra Leoneans in North America. [Apr. 2008]

Mohamed Fofanah was born in Kabala, Bankolia, where he grew up. He attended Bankolia DEC Primary School and AMASS (Kabala), and trained as a teacher at Milton Margai Teachers College in Goderich. He taught at the Muslim Brotherhood Secondary School in Freetown and at Armitage High School and Crab Island Junior School in the Gambia. He previously taught at Kinderdorf Bottrop Technical Senior and Junior Secondary School nd is currently taeching at Ndows Comprehensive Junior Secondary School. He owns an internet cafe at Brikama, the Gambia. He has produced handouts in economics, and a book on Islamic Studies for junior and senior secondary schools. He is married to Kumba Bendu, and they are blessed with a boy and a girl. They are residing in Brikama, the Gambia. [Nov. 2007]

Kweku Hugh Fraser attended Sierra Leone Grammar School from 1967 to 1973 and Fourah Bay College from 1973 to 1978. He worked for Standard Chartered Bank (SL) from 1978 to 1985 and Barclays Bank (SL) from 1988 to 1990. He moved to Kenya in 1990 and worked there until June 1998 when he moved to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania where he currently heads the management consultancy practice of Ernst & Young Tanzania. [Nov. 2008]

Augustine Frazer was born in Tongo Field, Kenema District (NDMC), but grew up on the Island of Bonthe. He attended UMC Primary School – Bonthe and Bonthe Secondary School. He transferred to Bo and attended The Bo School. He was actively involved with the Scout movement, where at the age of 17 he was a scout leader trained at the Grafton Scout training site inFreetown. He represented Sierra Leone in Denmark at the 1985 International Jamboree. Augustine Frazer went to Njala University and studied Agricultural Science- General. At Njala, he was actively involved in student politics and other social organizations. He was president of Rotaract International, where he campaigned and received the Charter on behalf of the organization. He was vice president of the Student Union Government from 1992 to 1993. He holds a Master of Social Work degree from Howard University inWashington DC, with extensive work experience with the States of Ohio, Maryland and Pennsylvania in the areas of Child Welfare, Community Development, homeless population, and mobile therapies in Psychotherapy. Augustine is married with two children. [Apr. 2008]

Shirley M. Fretz lived in Sierra Leone from April 1967 to August 1985. From 1967 to 1970 she was Boarding Home Superintendent at Minnie Mull Memorial School for Girls in Bonthe, Sherbro. From 1971 to 1981 she worked in the office at Mattru UBC Hospital in Mattru Jong, and from 1981-1985 worked in Christian Education in connection with Bumpe Primary School and Bumpe High School, in Bumpe, via Bo. She currently lives in Ridgeway, Ontario, Canada. [Nov. 2008]

 

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