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Greetings to SLVP donors and friends,
This is the first of what surely will be many more newsletters intended to update our donors and friends on the progress of the projects we are sponsoring. This past year (2008) was the first full calendar year for Sierra Leone Village Partnerships, and, we are happy to report that it has been a year of major advances for our organization. By year’s end we have seen the Mamaka school project to its final phase and have begun a similar school building project in the village of Fadugu. These two formerly war-torn communities have done their part, through your contributions, to provide educational opportunities to their children. We are pleased that in spite of all of the challenges of 2008, you committed yourself to providing the money necessary for these projects. As a small nonprofit organization we are able to work very closely with these communities on projects that they have committed themselves to with little or no overhead cost. Every dollar you contribute to Sierra Leone Village Partnerships goes directly to these projects. This makes our efforts extremely cost effective and gratifying for everyone involved. We hope that you will join us again in 2009 by providing us with the financial assistance necessary to work in partnership with communities in Sierra Leone.
My name is J. Albert Kamara, president and co-founder of Sierra Leone Village Partnerships. SLVP was born during one of our annual reunions, the summer of 2006, at Lissa Rockwood’s home in Ashland, MA. It was at Ms Rockwood’s home that I asked my Returned Peace Corps Volunteers friends to help me raise funds to rebuild the UMC Primary School at Mamaka, the elementary school I attended as a kid. It was an emotional moments as my sincere intentions were both patriotic and philanthropic in nature to help rebuild the village communities in Sierra Leone that had been destroyed and impacted by the effects of the 10 year senseless civil war. In response to my request, my friends whom we all have shared similar intentions and ambitions for many years agreed, not only help me rebuild my former elementary school at Mamaka, but to pool our various talents and efforts together and create a nonprofit and charitable organization to work in partnership with the villages we all love in Sierra Leone. This family of friends, I nicknamed “Friemily”, set to work and by September 20, 2007 Sierra Leone Village Partnerships was incorporated in Tampa Florida, the home of our treasurer and wife, Mr. & Mrs. Phillips, both board members and co-founders of SLVP. By March 2008 Sierra Leone Village Partnerships became a tax-exempt organization under section 501(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code. It is my hope therefore, that every Sierra Leonean, friends of Sierra Leone, sympathizers and well-wishers join hands and efforts together ,and help rebuild the village communities and therefore our nation of Sierra Leone. Thank you all for your support and corporation. J. Albert Kamara President: Sierra Leone Village Partnerships, Inc.
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