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Dr. Leo H. Madden served as a teacher of Economics and English at Wesley Secondary School, Segbwema, from 1977 to 1980 as a Peace Corps Volunteer. He is currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Theology at Ohio Dominican University, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A. [Nov. 2007]

Gerald V. "Gerry" Magbity hails from Serabu and Bandasahn in the Bumpe Chiefdom. He attended Catholic Model School and Christ the King College, Bo. He's a Water and Waste Engineer from Kharkov Institute of Civil Engineering, Kharkov, Ukraine and Institute of Hydraulics and Environmental Engineering, Delft, Netherlands. He recently finished his mission in the DRC where he was working as a Country Logistics Coordinator with Oxfam GB. Prior to that he had worked in Mozambique, Malawi, Guinea, Nigeria, Rwanda, Burundi, DRC with Doctors without Borders (MSF) and International Rescue Committee (IRC). Since 23 October 2007 he has been working as a Logistics Specialist for UNICEF. He is currently based at the UNICEF Supply Division in Copenhagen, Denmark. [Nov. 2007]

Jim and Kathy Malcolm served under the Kingsley Plan as teachers at the Taiama Secondary School, UMC, in Taiama from 1969 to 1971, and 1973 to 1974. They are living in Mankato, Minnesota, U.S.A., where Jim is retired from mathematics teaching, but he continues as head coach of track and field at a local high school. Kathy is employed as a teacher in the Early Childhood Family Education Program. [Nov. 2007]

Sullay A. Mannah was born on 31st August 1970. He attended the Leone Preparatory School,and later Prince of Wales(1981 to 1983),and Government Secondary School, Bo (1983 to 1988), where he obtained his O' and A' Levels. He attended Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, from 1988 to 1994, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1991, and a Bachelor of Law (honours) in 1994.He was called to the Bar of Sierra Leone in 1995,having qualified as a barrister and solicitor.He is a former Secretary General of the Sierra Leone Bar Association, and also lectured in the Department of Law, Fourah Bay College, for a period of eight years (1998 o 2005). He is currently employed as the Legal Officer, Bank of Sierra Leone. He is married with one daughter. [Nov. 2007]

Abdul Mansaray is from Kissy Mess Mess, and attended Hastings Elementary and Methodist Boys' High School. He was a Founding Member of the Stadium Stars Track Club and an athletic assistant at the Sports Organizers Office of the National Sports Council, Siaka Stevens Stadium. An elite sprinter, Abdul represented Sierra Leone in national and international track and field competitions, including the 1984 and 1988 Olympic Games, earning a nomination as "Athlete of the Century" by the prestigious Progress newspaper. Abdul is also mentioned in the BBC's 2002 Commonwealth Games website as a "National Sports Hero." He currently resides in Temecula, Southern California. Abdul is married to Martha-Marie Foray of Kissy Dockyard and Annie Walsh Memorial School. [Nov. 2007]

Mohamed Lamin Mansaray is an old Princewalean who has lived in the diaspora throughout his working carreer. He was born in 1947 in Freetown, where he did his entire schooling before proceeding to the U.K. for further studies in late 1968. His expertise is in Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) and he holds a Masters degree in Management Information Systems. Since 1973, he has worked in the U.K., France, Nigeria andTogo, and is presently with the West African Monetary Institute (WAMI) in Accra, Ghana, where he is the ICT Director. WAMI is the body charged with the development of the West African Central Bank t which is expected to introduce the ECOWAS common currency, Eco by 2010. His role in it is to midwife the regional Wide Area Networking of the tne ECOWAS Central Bank. He enjoys writing poetry, and has published some of them in the Sierra Leone Web's Poetry page. [Nov. 2007]

Cornell Menking Ph.D was a Peace Corps Volunteer (Agriculture) in Sierra Leone from 1988 to 1991 (first in the eastern Kailahun district and later in Shenge). Since leaving Sierra Leone he has lived in Guatemala, Boston, Yakutia (northeastern Siberia, Russia) and Ecuador. In 2003 he completed his Ph.D. in Educational Thought and Sociocultural Studies from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. In November of 2007 he was named Chief International Officer of Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky. He also holds a faculty appointment in WKU’s College of Education. [Nov. 2007]

Barry F. Mitsch served in the Peace Corps from 1978 to 1980 as an instructor at the National School of Hygiene in Freetown. Currently he lives in Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A. with his wife (DJ) and two children (Jessica and Hank). [Nov. 2007]

Edward Monaghan was a Peace Corps lecturer at Makeni Teachers College from 1979 to 1982. He currently lives in the four corners region of the USA, and serves as an Assistant Superintendent for Learning Services in the Gallup-McKinley County Schools. Major areas of research include closing the achievement gap for Navajo students, and the use of continuous improvement principles in public education. Also, he serves as a board member of Sierra Leone Village Partnerships (http://slvp.org). He is married to Jennifer (Tsosie) Monaghan, and they have three children: Adrian, Krista, and Tierra. [Nov 2007]

Anna Morford taught commercial courses at Harford School for Girls, Moyamba, beginning in 1965. Between that year and 1983 (with a four-year absence to Zimbabwe) she taught typing, shorthand, English, and commerce. For approximately 5 years, she worked at the United Methodist Church headquarters in Freetown on Lightfoot-Boston Street, helping to coordinate program personnel coming from the United States to be involved with United Methodist projects throughout Sierra Leone. After leaving Sierra Leone, she worked in the United Methodist personnel headquarters in New York as assistant treasurer working with missionary payroll and benefits. From 1994 to the present, she is the Treasurer of the Detroit Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, located in Flint, Michigan. Her adopted daughter, Virginia, also lives in Flint, where she works for Visiting Nurses in Michigan, human resources department. [Nov. 2007]

Jumanatu (Tunis) Morray received her O'Levels at Islamic Secondary School from 1983 to 1989, and her A'Levels from St. Andrews Secondary School from 1989 to 1991. She attended Fourah Bay College from 1991 to 1996, where she received a BSc. degree. In April 2002 she graduated from Springfield College with an M.Sc. in Human Service Administration. She currently lives with her husband and two children in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A. They will relocate in May 2008 to New Jersey, U.S.A. [Nov. 2007]

David Kagbein Muana (Damua), was born in NDMC Yengema, Kono District and grew up in Yengema, Bo Town and Freetown. He attended UMC School, Yengema, then Christ the King College, Bo (1980 to 1986). He entered Fourah Bay College (1988 to1993) and graduated with a Bachelors Degree and a Diploma in Community Adult Education. He came to England in 1994, where he attended Hommerton College, Cambridge (1996 to 1999), and graduated with a Diploma in Higher Education (Mental Health Nursing). He attended the University of Leicester (2001- to 2002) and graduated with a Diploma in Management Studies, then the University of East London (2005 to 2006), where he graduated with MBA (Public Service). He currently works with Brent Council in the Housing and Community Care Department as Team Manager. He lives in North London, Tottenham with his family. He is an active supporter of COBA, UK. He is also a big supporter of the Tottenham Hotspur Football Club (The Lily White). [Jun. 2007]

Taplima Muana is from Kailahun in eastern Sierra Leone. He grew up in Bo and attended the Government Secondary School at Bo from 1980 to 1988. He later studied at Fourah Bay College, and graduated in 1993. Thereafter he taught at Harford School for Girls. At present, he Programme Manager for Plan International in Moyamba. [Nov. 2007]

Mona Murad was born in Freetown 1977. She lived in Sefadu and went to the Lebanese International School until 1987. She moved to Lebanon in 1988 where she finished middle school, high school, and then went to BAU in Beirut. She graduated with a BS in Pharmacy in 2001. She moved to the United States in 2001, got married, and worked in Florida as a pharmacist for CVS Corporation. Since July 2007 she has lived in Rochester, Minnesota with herhusband, mother and two children, Adam and Celina. [Sep. 2007]

Peggy Murrah was a Peace Corps Volunteer (Primary Education Moyamba District) and lived in Taiama from 1978 to 1980. She currently lives in Social Circle, Georgia where she teaches school. She has two daughters, Laurie and Hadley. She has served on the Board of Directors for Friends of Sierra Leone since 2002 and president since 2004. [Nov. 2007]

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Francina Namgongo was schooled in Port Loko as well as in Blama. She was one of the Namibians who were in exile during the late 80s and early 90s and is now back in Namibia and living there. She currently holds a Masters Degree in Business Management and is a Deputy Director of Human Resources Management. [Jun. 2007]

Phil and Judy Nelson worked at KRMS in Kabala from 1988 to 1992, and then moved to Freetown. They are currently living in Freetown and working with International D.O.V.E. (Development, Orphanages, Vocational Education), where they operate homes for orphaned and abandoned children in the Freetown and Kabala areas. [Nov. 2007]

Martha Neuman was a Peace Corps Volunteer (agriculture) from 1983 to 1985 in Melakuray in Port Loko District. She currently lives in Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. and works on cleaning up and protecting Puget Sound. She is also on the board of the Foundation for West Africa. [Dec. 2007]

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Mary Jo Mahon Oakes lived in Freetown from 1980 to 1982 as a VICS (Volunteer International Christian Service) volunteer from Toronto, Canada While in Sierra Leone she was the accountant for the National Leprosy Control Programme established by Xaverian missionaries. She currently resides with her husband, Andrew Oakes, and two children in Courtice, Ontario, Canada. [Nov. 2007]

Lois Olsen lived in Sierra Leone from 1952 to 1963 as a missionary with the (then) United Brethren Church, now the United Methodist Church. She spent most of her time in Taiama, but also lived briefly in Rotifunk and Jaiama Nimikoro. She has been back several times, most recently in 2002 and 2005. She currently lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A. [Nov. 2007]

Eva Claudia O'Rielly-Jones was born in the U.K. of Sierra Leonean parents. She attended primary school in London; secondary at the St. Joseph's Convent, Freetown Secondary School for Girls; tertiary education in Switzerland and Belgium and University of Maryland. She has worked for the Swiss & Belgo/American private sectors. Currently a Bilingual Executive Assistant with the Secretariat of the African Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP States) in Brussels, Belgium. [Nov. 2007]

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David W. Philips was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Port Loko from 1967 to 1969. He taught various subjects at the Schlenker Secondary School. David is now a teacher and consultant living in Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A. [Nov. 2007]

Father Rocco Puopolo is a Xaverian missionary priest, and was director of the National Pastoral Centre in Kenema from 1995 to 1999. In earlier assignments in Sierra Leone he lived in Kambia (1973 to 1974), Kabala (1978 1o 1980) and Freetown (1980 to 1984). He is currently living in Hyattsville, MD and is the executive director of the Africa Faith and Justice Network (www.afjn.org) in Washington DC. [Nov. 2007]

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John Rabideau The Rabideau family lived in Kenema as Peace Corps volunteers from 1971 to 1974. Ro Rabideau worked in construction for the Ministry of Works. Ita Rabideau worked at the Nongowa Clinic for Dr. Sama Banya. John and Daniel Rabideau attended Holy Trinity Secondary School. The Rabideaus were in the first group of Peace Corps volunteers to go as a family. Ro and Ita retired and settled in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Ro passed away in January 2007. John, Daniel and Jacqueline have settled in South Florida and are raising families. [Nov. 2007]

Carlotta E. L (Faulkner) Roberts attended the Freetown Secondary School for Girls and Fourah Bay College. was Vice Principal at the Secondary Technical School in Congo Cross. [Nov. 2002],Rose to Principal in2005.Retired in March,2007.Served as National President YWCA Sierra Leone.and President Soroptimist International of Freetown. [Nov. 2007]

Clifford Rotime Roberts attended CMS Grammar School and Boys’ Secondary School in Magburaka. He worked as a school teacher at Bishop Johnson Memorial School, Methodist Boys’ High School and Sierra Leone Grammar School. He retired in December 2000 from the Milton Margai College of Education, where he was Head of the Agricultural Sciences Department and Senior Lecturer, Warden of Students at the College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences (COMAHS). He now operates a small consultancy in Freetown called "ROBSCO." It is a grassroots consultancy designed to do training, projects (design unto evaluation), sexual and reproductive health and family planning issues, etc. Currently he is working as a short term consultant, with Public Administration International (PAi)/DFID, in the Governance Reform Secretariat, for the Civil Service in Sierra Leone. He has done the Management and Functional Reviews of some government ministries. He is also consulting with the Establishment Secretary's Office for the transformation into a Human Resource Management Office. He also served for six years as President of the Planned Parenthood Association of Sierra Leone, served also in the Executive Committee for the Africa region of International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and was the first Chairman for the National Accountability Group (NAG), which is a contact group for Transparency International based in Berlin, Germany. NAG is a civil society movement which complements the efforts of the Anti-Corruption Commission in Sierra Leone. He is a Commissioner for Oaths in the Republic of Sierra Leone. [Nov. 2007]

Judy Jainya (Lansana) Rogers attended St. Joseph's Secondary School in Freetown, and graduated from Njala University College in 1983. She left for the United States in 1985. She now lives in California. She graduated from law school in California in 1998. She currently works as Deputy District Attorney for Kern County. She is married and has two boys. [Dec 2007]

Reijo Rouhe was administrator of Masanga Leprosy Hospital from 1977 to 1981. He currently lives in Redlands, California, U.S.A.  [Nov. 2007]

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