SIERRA LEONEAN YOUTH RESOURCES

ORGANIZATIONS

British Council Sierra Leone  
The UK's leading international organisation for educational and cultural relations. 

International Education and Resource Network of Sierra Leone
"iEARN Sierra Leone serves and rehabilitates youths who have suffered from war and war's effects. To accomplish this, we have a two-fold mission: to directly rehabilitate Sierra Leonean youths through education and exchanges, and to promote peace education in schools, both in Sierra Leone and all over the world."

Search for Common Ground - Sierra Leone
A listing of programs, many for youth, that are being implemented by SFCG to reintegrate Sierra Leonean refugees back into their war torn communities.

Sierra Leone Citizens Rights Association
"(SLCRA) is a coalition of 21 Civil Society Organizations, Community Based Organizations, Youths Groups, Child Protection Agencies, Women Groups, Business Organizations, Professional Organizations, Farmers Organizations, and Human Rights Organizations founded in 2000. The idea is to liberate the sufferings of abused and violated victims of human rights especially young women, girls and children. "

World Congress of Youth in Sierra Leone
Their goal is to "strengthen the educational, cultural, environmental, political and social conditions of youth and to be the spirit of the international youth movement."

ARTICLES

YEDEM International. (25Jan05) "Youth and Democracy in Africa," Panaramo. Takingitglobal.com. Available online.

BOOKS

D'Alisera, Joann (2004). An Imagined Geopraphy: Sierra Leonean Muslims in America. University of Pennsylvania Press.

Kabba, Karamoh. (2003) A Mother's Saga: An Account of the Rebel War in Sierra Leone. Universal Publishers, 144pp.

Voeten, Tuen. (2002) How de body? One Man's Terrifying Journey through an African War. Thomas Dunne Books, 288pp.

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