Feeding Hungry Minds
MISSION
Support motivated youth in overcoming obstacles to higher education and introduce them to a wider world view using multi-media technologies
This series of pictures shows the progress of the original students who started out in our program in 2004. Along with the basic tutoring, exam prep, students also participated in audio visual training. Each year those students who passed their exam in order to advance to the next grade level, received scholarships. Over 100 students have passed through our program. The Founding Students are Graduating this year and will be taking their college entrance exam this spring.
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2009 International Day of the African Child, Freetown, Sierra Leone
Students from the Feeding Hungry Minds Learning Center took pictures and videos of youth in Freetown, Sierra Leone observing the Day of the African Child, in memory of thousands of black school children who were maimed and killed in the 1976 Soweto uprising, as they took to the streets to protest the inferior quality of their education and to demand their right to be taught in their own language.
The International Day of the African Child has been commemorated on 16 June every year since 1991, when it was first initiated by the Organisation of African Unity. It also raises awareness of the continuing need for improvement of health care and education provided to African children.
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Freetown, Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone, West Africa is a country under reconstruction after being ravaged by a brutal civil war for over 11 years. The recent movie Blood Diamond gives a rather accurate portrayal of the struggle and the chaos caused by the war. One of the main exports is diamonds, along with many other precious minerals. While the government has stabilized over the last 5 years or so, the economic and social infrastructure is not well developed, and serious social disorders continue to hamper economic development. About two-thirds of the working-age population engages in subsistence agriculture. Manufacturing consists mainly of the processing of raw materials and of light manufacturing for the domestic market.
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