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Alfred Vandy Gborie holds a Master of Statistics degree (1997), Postgraduate Diploma in Statistics (1996) from Makerere University, Kampala Uganda; and B. Sc. Education (Major in Mathematics), Njala University College, University of Sierra Leone, 1989. Primary and Secondary education in Taiama. He has nine years of experience in rural development project, research and teaching in International NGO, Research Institutions and Njala University, respectively. He has five years of work experience in humanitarian work programmes with the United Nations World Food Programme in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Mozambique. Currently he is in Kabul, Afghanistan, working for IOM Afghanistan as Program Support Officer. [Nov. 2007]

Allan Niger George was born and lived in Freetown (around Clock Tower, Kissy Road and Will Street). He attended the Samaria Primary School and Methodist Boys' High School. Post secondary school education includes engineering courses at the Freetown Technical Institute, graduate and post graduate courses at Belarus Minsk Polytechnical Institute, and post graduate courses in education at CSU Dominguez Hills. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. [Nov. 2007]

Sheku Golfa hails from Koidu, Kono District. He currently resides in Trinidad and Tobago, as a UN Volunteer fielded by UNDP to strengthen the capacity in the Ministry of Education over the next few years. He worked as a Statistician and Demographer in the then Central Statistics Office (now renamed Statistics Sierra Leone) of the Government of Sierra Leone from 1991 to 2001. In May of 2001 he was employed as M+E Officer and Database Manager at the United Nations World Food Programme (UNWFP) in Freetown. He graduated from Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, and did post-graduate studies at the U.N. Regional Institute for Population Studies at the University of Ghana, Legon. [Nov. 2007]

Samuel Grant was born in Freetown. He lived in New EnglandVille briefly, but he spend most of his childhood life up country, in Yamadu, where he attended Roman Catholic Primary School. Mr Grant was accepted at CKC-Secondary School-Bo, but he was unable to attend because he emigrated to California, U.S.A. He attended Silver Creek High School in San Jose, California, and completed his Bachelor of Arts from San Diego State University with an emphasis in Economics & Finance. Mr. Grant is now residing in Dallas, Texas, and works for a commercial real estate firm as a broker. Mr. Grant is very much an active participant in Dallas, where he is a member of the Tegloma Chapter and a member of Calvary Fellowship International Church. Mr. Grant enjoys reading, playing chess and racquetball on his spare time. [Dec. 2007]

John B. Gray lived in Freetown as a PCV from 1963 to 1965 (Group IV). He worked for the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Service in radio and television. He was a video producer at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A. for 21 years, doing cross cultural documentaries, with special interests in the Americas. He left video in June 2000 to sail , swim, tend his wild garden, and continue to marvel as each moment unfolds. He spends winters with the Sea of Cortez in La Paz, BCS, Mexico. [Nov. 2007]

Larry Griffith was at Njala/Makonde (Njala University College) in 1992 and 1993. He currently lives in Westfield, Massachusetts, U.S.A. [Nov. 2007]

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Jeff Hall was a Peace Corps Volunteer (Agriculture) from 1987 to 1989 in Jokibu, near Bunumbu, in Kailahun District. He now lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A. Jeff is currently partnering closely with his village as they rebuild after the war. Over the past two years, funds raised in the U.S. have purchased 400 new metal roofs, 6 new clean water wells, various medical and educational supplies, a new school addition, and about 200 educational scholarships each year. Jeff is also taking 15 - 20 Americans to the village each year, as they build a strong relationship that enriches both countries. The partnership has committees in the U.S. and in the village for food, water, health, education and income. The goal is to improve measurably, each year, these critical quality of life issues. [Nov. 2007]

Oliver Harding holds a Bachelor of Arts (with honours) degree in modern history, a postgraduate diploma and a Master of Arts degree in librarianship from Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone. Furthermore, he obtained a Master of Arts degree in Biblical Studies from West Africa Theological Seminary (WATS), Lagos, affiliate of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka where he obtained the prize for academic excellence as the Best Graduating Student in 2005. He worked as Reference and Deputy Library during his studies at WATS. He is currently Senior and Acting Librarian of Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone; Vice President of the Sierra Leone Association of Librarians, Archivists and Information Scientist (SLAALIS); an affiliate of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals and a part time lecturer at Institute of Library, Information and Communication Studies, Fourah Bay College and The Evangelical College of Theology. Oliver, a Biblical scholar, teacher, preacher, musician etc. is married (to Francess) with two children (Olivia and Francis). [Nov. 2007]

Jim Higbie was a Peace Corps Volunteer from 1969 to 1973 in Daru and Kenema, working on a primary school teacher training project. He previously worked in Laos on English language projects. He has written three books on the Thai language and one book on the Lao language. He is currently working in Kono, Sierra Leone. [Nov. 2007]

Dave Holland was a CUSO volunteer from 1971 to 1974 at Sumbuya Secondary School in Sumbuya, Southern Province, where he was head of the Geography Department. In December 1973, Dave met Terry Beattie and two days later, they became engaged - they celebrated their 33rd wedding anniversary on 31 August 2007. Dave returned to university to get a degree in computer mapping and returned to Sierra Leone in 1975 with Terry to work on a mapping project as part of a UNDP/FAO project. Dave and Terry currently live in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada, where Dave is a tax fraud investigator for Canada Customs and Revenue Agency and Terry is a medical laboratory technologist at Prince County Hospital. They have two children, Matthew and Sarah. Matthew, who is a graduate of the University of New Brunswick, is currently the co-founder and Director to the Ottawa branch of Linchpin Labs, a computer security company. Sarah is also a graduate of the University of New Brunswick where she earned her Bachelor of Arts and her Bachelor of Education. She has taught English as a Second Language in Poland and is currently seeking new adventures. [Nov. 2007]

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Abdul Goudous Jalloh was born in Cline Town (Kanikay Area) in Freetown. He grew up in Yogomaia Kabala in the Koinadugu District where he attended the D.C. Primary School. He attended the Government Boys' Secondary School in Magburaka. Attended colleges in Ashland Southern Oregon and University of Maryland College Park. He currently resides in Hyattsville, Maryland, U.S.A. (the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area). [Nov. 2007]

Bashir Ibrahim Jalloh is from Fanima Wunde in Bo District and currently lives in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. He attended the Ahmadiyya Muslim Secondary School in Bo and Jimmy Boys' Secondary School. He later studied at the College of Medicine in Freetown and the University of Toronto. He is the former President of NUSS. He is currently working in the Nuclear Medicine Department at the Regina Paqua Hospital, Regina. He is a member of the CAMRT, NMTCB and ARRT. [Nov. 2007]

Donald Johnson was a CUSO volunteer teaching English at Njala Secondary School in 1979 and 1980. He currently teaches English as a Second Language at Fanshawe College in London, Ontario, Canada. [Nov. 2007]

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Al Shek Kamara attended the Bo School, Scarcies Secondary School, Fourah Bay College and Michigan State University. He is a Chief Superintendent of Police and served Aide-de-Camp to His Excellency the President of the Republic of Sierra Leone. He is currently Assistant Inspector General of Police headquartered at Police Headquarters on George Street. He lives at Hill Station in Freetown. [Nov. 2007]

Dr. Alpha Yaya Kamara was born in Benduma, Bagbwe Chiefdom, Bo District. He attended St. Andrew's Secondary School in Bo, and graduated from Njala University College in 1986 with a Bachelors degree in Agriculture General. He holds a Masters degree in Agronomy from the University of Kiel, Germany and a doctorate degree in Agronomy and Crop Science from the University of Kassel, Germany. Dr. Kamara was a teacher at the Bo Commercial Secondary School from 1986 to 1988 and a research officer at the Institute of Agricultural Research (IAR), Njala in Sierra Leone from 1994 to1995. He is currently a Systems Agronomist/crop physiologist at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria. His research interests include sustainable land use systems in the tropics, crop physiology, plant nutrition, and general agronomy. Dr. Kamara enjoys playing golf and tennis. He is married to Sia Mary Kamara (nee Bandabla) and they have a son and a daughter.  [Nov. 2007]

Henry Yamba Kamara was born in Yonibana in Tonkolili District to Pa M B Kamara and Mary Kamara. He holds a Masters of Science in the Management of Quality Excellence (Quality Management) from the University of Leicester, United Kingdom, a Masters of Science in Management Consultancy (Corporate Governance) from the Liverpool John Moore University, Liverpool, United Kingdom and a Bachelor of Science degree (Physics/Chemistry) from Njala University College, USL. He is a Quality Management Consultant and a trained BSI Lead Assessor in ISO9001:2000, a member of the Institute of Chartered Management, UK; the Institute of Business Consulting, UK; the American Society for Quality, USA; and an Associate member of the Chartered Quality Institute UK. Mr Kamara attended the United Methodist Church Primary School in Yonibana, the Yonibana Secondary School and Taiama Secondary School. Taught Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics at the Benevolent Islamic Secondary School, St. Francis Secondary School and the Albert Academy in Sierra Leone. Lectures Engineering Science and Mathematics at the Government Technical Institute, Freetown, Sierra Leone. Mr. Kamara served as Programmes Manager and Ag. Executive Director for Save Heritage and Rehabilitate the Environment (SHARE), Freetown Sierra Leone and later head of the Quality Management Department of the Sierra Leone Standards Bureau. He now resides in London, United Kingdom working as Quality Assurance Manager for Universal College UK, London and as Business Development Director for TQM Associate in London. As a Lead Assessor (ISO9001:2000), he consult for various businesses in the UK in the fields of standardization, accreditation, conformity assessment (testing and calibration, inspection and certification) and quality management, and can assist and facilitate organizations in obtaining certification to ISO 9001 & ISO 14001 in the most effective, economical, time bound and easy to implement manner. [Nov. 2007]

Dr. John M. Kamara lived in Makeni and worked for the Wesleyan Church of Sierra Leone. He attended Government Secondary School for Boys in Magburaka (1974 to 1980), Fourah Bay College (Department of Civil Engineering, Solomon Caulker Hall, 1980 to 1985), Selly Oak Colleges, Birmingham, U.K. (1989), University of Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. (1994 to 1995), and the University of Teesside, U.K. (1996 to 1999). He currently lives in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, and is Senior Lecturer and Director of Postgraduate Research in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, University of Newcastle upon. He is married to Elizabeth (nee Sen-Sisay), and they have three sons. [Nov. 2007]

Nadim N. Kantara, of Freetown, was managing director of Tradex S.L. Ltd., and formerly worked for Sierra Leone Bricks Factory, the International Bank for Trade and Industry, Agro Commercial Trading Company, and Palm Beach Casino Club. He currently is President and Managing Editor of the A Folha De Teresopolis Journal in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [Nov. 2007]

Pa Santhikie Mambay "S.K." Kanu is from Rofayrku in the Buya Romende Chiefdom of Port Loko District. He attended St. Francis Secondary School at Makeni, the Ahmadiyya Secondary School (AMSS) in Freetown and the Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, U.S.A. He is currently a Real Estate Developer and Custom Home Builder in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. [Nov. 2007]

Ali Badara Kargbo was born in Bauya, (intersection (junction) of the then existing Sierra Leone Railway). He attended the University of Wroclaw in Poland and the Institute of Foreign Languages in Moscow. He is an A+ certified computer technician. He presently resides in Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.A. [Nov. 2007]

Kim Kargbo lived in Tambiama, Sierra Leone with her missionary parents from 1976 to 1983. She returned to work in Kamakwie as a nurse from 1990 to 1993, founding the Community Health Evangelism programme in the northern Bombali district. While there, she met and married her husband, Tim Kargbo. They and their three children currently live in Mississippi, where Tim works as the General Manager for CrossCom National. [Nov. 2007]

Dr. Cleaver Keenan served in the Sierra Leone Medical Service from 1956 to 1960. He was M.O. Police & Prisons for a few weeks before being posted to Bonthe. In his second tour, he was posted to the Connaught Hospital, where he worked with Dr. Davidson Nicol as Assistant Pathologist, and in the Emergency Department. When in Bonthe he and Dorothy adopted a little girl, Sally Conteh, who had had one arm amputated by Dr. Haj Conteh because of a snake bite. Sally was later murdered by the rebels. He revisited Sierra Leone in 1979 to open a school in Lunsar which was built by Espanola United church. He currently lives in New Liskeard, Ontario, Canada. [Nov. 2007]

Peter Kenah was born in Sengema, Malen Chiefdom, in the Pujehun District. He had his primary education at the District Council School in Gandorhun Fakunya and RC School Sahn Malen and his secondary education at the St Paul’s Secondary School in Pujehun. In 1979, Peter entered the then Milton Margai Teachers College (now Milton Margai College of Education and Technology) where he read Geography and Biology. On graduation in 1982, he was awarded the Ibrahim N’jai prize for the best student of Geography. Having taught for a couple of years, he entered Fourah Bay College in 1988 and graduated with a Second Class Upper Honours degree in Geography in June 1993. Peter holds a Master of Arts degree (M.A. Population Studies) from the United Nations Regional Institute for Population Studies at the University of Ghana, Legon. He has worked in various places – UNDP Projects, Anti-Corruption Commission, University of Sierra Leone etc. He is currently the Head of Customer Service at the National Social Security and Insurance Trust (NASSIT) in Sierra Leone. He lives with his wife and four children – three boys and a daughter - in Freetown. [Jan. 2008]

Joseph Tamba Koroma attended Bo Government Secondary School (Head Prefect) and Njala University in Sierra Leone. He received his higher education in the United States where he earned undergraduate degrees in Environmental Studies Policy and Accounting from Manchester College in Indiana. And he has also completed a Master of Public Administration (MPA) and Doctor of Philosophy (PHD) in Geography from Indiana State University. His doctoral research, focused on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Africa. He currently works as Associate Dean of Student Financial Services at Olympic College in the state of Washington. [Nov. 2007]

Mohamed Alusine Kosia was born in Mattru-jong, Bonthe District. He attended the Centennial Secondary School Mattru-jong from 1969 to 1974. He attended the Government Trade Centre at Kissy Dockyard, Freetown, from 1975 to 1978. Currently he is working for the American Embassy as a switchboard operator in Bamako in the Republic of Mali [Nov. 2007]

Ngadi W. Kponou is Public Services Assistant, Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A. [Nov. 2007]

Sulay-Manah Kpukumu was born in Sendumei in eastern Sierra Leone. He attended Bonthe Secondary School, St. Helena Secondary School and Ahmadiyya Muslim Secondary School in Freetown. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree (in French, Philosophy and Political Science), a Diploma in Education from Fourah Bay College, and a post-graduate Diploma in Business Administration from Institute of Public Administration and Management in Freetown. He also holds a postgraduate Certificate in Diplomatic Studies from Corpus Christi College at Oxford University. He is First Secretary at the Permanent Mission of Sierra Leone to the United Nations in New York. He obtained  a Master of Administrative Science degree in Diplomacy and International Relations from Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey in May 2007. [Oct. 2007]

Saa Kpulun was born in Kangama, Kissi Teng Chiefdom, Kailahun district. He started his elementary schooling right there in Kangama and later moved to Kailahun, where he completed his primary education at the Methodist Primary school before entering the Methodist Secondary School. He moved on to the Albert Academy in Freetown a few years later, where he finished sixth form and then went on to the U.K and graduated with a BA. Honours degree from the University of York in Heslington. He also holds an MBA from the University of Ljublana in Slovenia. He is currently in employment with a government agency called the National Commission for Social Action (NaCSA), formerly the National Commission for Reconstruction, Resettlement and Rehabilitation (NCRRR), where he serves as the Executive Secretary. [Dec. 2007]

Dr. Lans Ahmed Kumalah was educated at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone; the University of Montpellier, France; and the University of Bordeaux, France. Dr. Kumalah was a Foreign Service Officer for several years and served as a Diplomat to the Kingdom of Belgium, The Netherlands, France, Austria and Luxembourg. On his return home he was appointed National Authorizing Officer (NAO) for the European Development Fund in Sierra Leone. While serving as NAO he also served as Regional Authorizing Officer for a regional fisheries program that covered 16 countries in West Africa including Mauritania. Dr. Kumalah was also a part-time Lecturer at Fourah Bay College and Milton Margai for several years. He has served as a Consultant to the World Bank since 2000 and currently Senior Manager at The Mitchell Group Inc., an international development firm based in Washington, DC, USA. He lives in Bowie, Maryland. [Nov. 2007]

Dr. Mabinty Kuyateh was born in Yonibana, Tonkolili District. She grew up in Freetown, Sierra Leone, where she attended the St. Anne's Primary School, St. Joseph's Secondary School and did her Sixth Form at the Prince of Wales Secondary School, Freetown, where she obtained her A' Levels. She went on to the Intermediate Year of the Faculty of Pure and Applied Science at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone. After a year at the University of Sierra Leone, although promoted to the qualifying year, she went on to Germany to study medicine at the University of Leipzig. She became a medical doctor. She received her medical degree in 1996 at the University of Leipzig and saw a childhood dream come true. After graduation, she went on to work at the Department of Public Health, City of Leipzig, and in the OB/Gyn department in a hospital in the Bavarian state of Germany. She obtained a Diploma in Community Health and Tropical Medicine from the University of Heidelberg in 2000, and is currently specialising in OB/Gyn. She presently resides Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.A. [Nov. 2007]

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Marilyn (Skeen) Lamin Marilyn (Skeen) Lamin served as a Peace Corps Volunteer at Kabala Secondary School from 1967 to 1970. In 1971 she married her former husband, Murray Lamin. She taught in Sumbuya Secondary School, Christ the King College in Bo, Kenema Secondary School, St. Joseph's Convent in Freetown, and helped establish the American International School in Freetown in 1986. She currently lives in Bedford, Texas, U.S.A. Marilyn and Murray have two sons: Jason and Jeremy. Jaspn has been working for Merrill-Lynch since graduating from the University of Texas in 1998, first on Wall Street in New York , then in London, and now back on Wall Street as a Vice President. In August 2007 Jason married Riqueza Feaster of New York City. Rique is a Securities Attorney for Citigroup in New York. Jeremy graduated as a 'Texas Creative' from the University of Texas in 2000, where he was a member of the University of Texas Runnin' Horns basketball team. Jeremy currently works for McGarry-Bowen, an advertising agency in New York City as Senior Art Director. In 2003 Jeremy married Katherine Penders of Durham, Connecticut. Katie is a Speech Pathologist, and she and Jeremy have a one-year-old daughter, Olivia 'Siah'. Marilyn is no longer in the classroom but continues to give presentations on Caribbean literature and her experiences in Sierra Leone. She is currently working on 'Cotton Tree Tales.' [Nov. 2007]

Scott Lamont was a Peace Corps Volunteer (fisheries) at Bonthe, Sherbro Island from 1983 to 1986. He is now a technical writer in Massachusetts, U.S.A. [Nov. 2007]

Miki Lang taught at St. Joseph's Secondary School for Girls in Moyamba from 1972 to 1973, and then worked in Freetown, at the PC craft shop, as well as at the Cape Sierra, for the Ministry of Tourism. She volunteered with CARE on family planning and was hired full-time, working first on road construction and then its feeding programs. She stayed in Africa -- Mali, Chad and Cameroon -- until 1988 and now lives in Sausalito, California, U.S.A., selling real estate. She is the proud mother of the World Cup Champion in paintballing, Oliver Lang. [Nov. 2007]

Albert B. Lansana was born in Moscow, Russia in 1971, the son of Mr. Anthony B. Lansana and Mrs. Hamida Cecilia Lansana. In 1973 his parents took him home to Sierra Leone. He spent most of his time in Hill Station and Mobimbi, where his father worked as a civil engineer for the ABU Construction Company and Sierra Rutile Limited. He has also spent some time in Liberia and Ghana during 1980s. He did his elementary school at the King Harman Preparatory School and from there went to Government Secondary School for Boys in Bo. In 1989 he went down to Albert Academy, where he finished both his G.C.E O' Levels and A' Levels. He then spent a year at the Institute of Public Administration and Management (IPAM). In 1997 he proceeded to the U.S. and Canada before moving to Detroit, Michigan. Finally, he moved to the state of Maryland where he attended the University of Maryland, majoring in Criminology and Criminal Justice. He currently lives in Detroit, Michigan, and is now on active duty in the United States Army working as an administrative specialist. His main hobbies are reading, listening to music, playing pool, and weight lifting.  [Jul. 2003]

Sam A. Leigh is Managing Director of Edward Davies and Associates, Ltd., Consulting Engineers. [Nov. 2007]

Tanniemola Bunting Liverpool lived in the 70's at Mount Aureol in Freetown. He is a theoretical physicist and previously worked at the Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung (Polymer Research) in Mainz, Germany and the Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielle in Paris, France and at the Imperial College in London. He was alecturer at the University of Leeds, U.K. Currently hs is a Reader in Applied Mathematics at Bristol University [Nov. 2007]