Overview...

What started as an awareness raising and ethnographic styled walk through Sierra Leone, this site now details the encounters of a not so academic academic who spends more time occupying Wall Street and squats than a university...

Friday, August 13, 2010

My New Friends...

So as my computer issues are growing, networking has become more difficult.  I have been able to establish though what looks like will be a great working and friendly relationship with two people.  If you remember my Child Help post from a while back, I've gotten a great response from two people.  One person works for this organization - his name iKaprie Thoronka (Kaps) - and he has been exceptionally helpful already.  He has even offered to pick me up when I get into the country and even that a member of his organization would show me their projects and make sure that I get to see the things that I need to see while in the country.  That is incredible compassion and hospitality, not to mention foresight. A most welcomed help.

Kaps and Stefan on top of mount Kabala...
The second person that I have been communicating with is Stefan Ernst.  He works for a similar child help organization in Germany.  He has been great in helping me get a bit better understanding of what I will be facing.  He went to Sierra Leone for a month last year and Child Help also showed him some of their work throughout the country as well.

Stefan with some of the teachers and students...
They are going to be of great help to both me and this project...  Good people are good people, and they exist all over the world!!  ;)

They look more excited about school than I did!!!

 

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