Joan Deare’s colorectal cancer experience – Joan Deare’s cancer journey started in November 1991. Unlike many, it wasn’t due to her own health or a diagnosis in the family. Throughout the 1990s, Joan was working very closely with cancer patients and with the help of her team, she assisted in transforming the face of cancer within rural communities across South Africa. At this time, cancer was regarded as a death sentence, and Joan hoped to change this outlook. Her personal experience with cancer began on a dreary London Monday morning in July, while working as a social worker in a... Continue Reading
By: WASH R&E “Media” Network – Along the Liberia-Guinea border, where six suspected Ebola cases have occurred, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded Improved Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (IWASH) Program is delivering materials to prevent potential spread of the disease. Materials have been distributed to health facilities that are in the “front line” in responding to the Ebola outbreak in the Foya District border region, in Lofa county. The IWASH team, with staff from the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (Lofa County Health Team) and the Ministry of Public Works, visited 3 clinics and the District... Continue Reading
Consequent to our critical criticism of the government, some have asked what people like us would do different if we were the President. This specifically in relation to our rejection of the insult to the Martyrs of March 15th, “unemployment day,” who the government in our view further debased the memories of and added pepper to the injuries of their families by throwing jobs at them. If I were president, here is an outline of what I will have done after the many died and many were cheated. 1. I will first give an immediate public address empathizing with not... Continue Reading
By: WASH R&E “Media” Network – Liberia this Saturday, March 22, 2014 joins other countries the world over to observe World Water Day. Globally, March 22nd is marked as World Water Day. Institutionalized by the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in 1992, the day is meant to increase global advocacy and create awareness on the need for fresh and clean water for better health and productivity. A release from the WASH Reporters & Editors Network of Liberia, says this year’s World Water Day is commemorated under the theme “Water and Energy”. The WASH Media Network is reminding the Liberian... Continue Reading
By Tejan Mansaray – The national state funeral arrangements underway by government in partnership with the Kabbah family and the SLPP, to honour former President Alhaji Dr Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, is a deserving accolade that will take the strict observation of presidential and state protocols. State funerals the world over are held only by sovereign states, and as the former President and Commander-In-Chief of the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces, belongs to the state and it is therefore the sacred responsibility of President Koroma to lead the whole process. So whether former President Kabbah be given a state funeral... Continue Reading
