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Ventura Technological Hich School students and teachers make friends and an impact in Sierra Leone
Ventura County Reporter OnLine, Ventura, California
Article by By Shaunacy Ferro
September 2, 2010

When 10th-grade students at Foothill Technology High School in Ventura started reading A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah’s memoirs of his experience as a child soldier in Sierra Leone, they had no idea the impact it would have on their school...

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Schools for Salone and Books For Africa
supply 20,000 books. 
Read more about this joint project
to bring books to Sierra Leone.
Fall 2009

Former child soldier works to help others
Jackson Hole News&Guide - Stepping Out, Jackson, Wyoming
Article by By Lucy Flood, Photos by John Madere
August 5, 2009

In a single week, bestselling author Ishmael Beah along with nonprofit organizations Schools for Salone and InterConnections 21 hope to raise $40,000 to build a primary school in Beah’s native Sierra Leone. ...

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Schools for Salone to sponsor
Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars
at Neumos in Seattle
on June 15th, 2009: 
Press Release and Flier.

See Press about Refugee All Stars Benefit Concerts for Schools for Salone in Aspen, Colorado, February, 2008:  Aspen Time Out  and Aspen Times.

And in Dallas, Texas, Febrary 2, 2008 by Pegasus News.

Former child soldier to give talk at Souhegan High
Nashua Telegraph - Neighbors, Amherst, New Hampshire
Article by Kristin Leffler, a junior at Souhegan High School
January 25, 2009

Ishmael Beah is a man with a remarkable life story. His childhood was stolen by a vicious civil war during the 1990s in the west African country of Sierra Leone that forced him to join in the fighting in order to survive.

After recovering from his early life as a child soldier, he is now an ambassador for UNICEF and a New York Times best-selling author ...

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Author Tells Souhegan students how
he overcame days as child soldier
Nashua Telegraph - Neighbors, Amherst, New Hampshire
Article by Kristin Leffler, a junior at Souhegan High School
April 5, 2009

Ishmael Beah spoke at Souhegan High School on March 25, hiding the horrors of his past with a bright smile and calm demeanor.

It was hard to believe that this optimistic man had been dragged into a vicious civil war in Africa when he was just 13 years old. Beah was born in 1980 in the small, poverty-stricken country of Sierra Leone.

"Being a kid before the war is one of the things that I still miss," Beah said. "The simplicity of things was absolutely remarkable ..."

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Former child soldier shares story
at Souhegan High
The Cabinet, Milford, New Hampshire- March 26, 2009
Article by Daymond Steer, Staff Writer and
Staff Photos by Bob Hammerstrom

AMHERST – A former child soldier in the Sierra Leone civil war and the man who helped him rediscover his humanity shared the stage at Souhegan High School on Wednesday.

Ishmael Beah, 29, a former soldier and now a New York Times best-selling author, and his mentor, Alusine Kamara, shared their story of redemption with students and members of the community.

Until the early 1990s, Beah was living a happy life in Sierra Leone. But then a group of rebels from Liberia came in and plunged the country into chaos.

At age 13, Beah was conscripted into the government's army and forced to kill or be killed. UNICEF removed Beah from the war when he was 16 and he was placed in a rehabilitation center for child soldiers run by Kamara called Benin Home ...

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Gwin Raises Money For African School 
Hoover City Schools, December 11, 2008

(GWIN) - Gwin Elementary ESL students and their families often congregate at Gwin for a special days called “Family Days.”   The most recent monthly event was a fundraiser which raised more than $100.00 for the war-torn African country, Sierra Leone...

1,000,000 books to Sierra Leone
Need Magazine,Minneapolis, MN - March 24, 2008
Article by Katy Petershack

Cindy Nofziger, a former Peace Corps volunteer in Sierra Leone, traveled back to the country after the long civil war ended in 2002. During her visit, an old friend asked her to help rebuild the education system that had been destroyed during the decade of fighting. Nofziger wanted to do all that she could to help, “Sierra Leoneans gave me so much when I lived there as a Peace Corps Volunteer. When … one of my Sierra Leonean colleagues from that time asked if I would help him rebuild a school in his village that had been destroyed during the war, I told him I would try ...”

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Lowell Students make a difference in Sierra Leone
Capital Hill Times, Seattle, Washington - March 5, 2008
Article and Photos by Doug Schwartz

The Lowell Elementary School student councils project committee is accustomed to taking on a variety of worthy projects.  But this year's project ended up being something well out of the ordinary.

Rather than taking on a proposed recycling project, the committee focused on something far fromm home, choosing instead to raise money for a variety of school and recreational supplies for children in the West African country of Sierra Leone ...

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Schools for Salone Update
Friends of Sierra Leone - NewsLetter - October 2005
Article by Cindy Nofziger

It’s done!  Schools for Salone’s first school building in Sierra Leone is finished!  Construction on our very first school – in the little village of Maforeka, Simira Chiefdom, in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone – is done!  The village has worked hard and spent the money we’ve raised wisely.  Teachers are hired and they’re ready to move into their new school.  It’s taken less than one year, from when we started to raise money last January.  Through the sale of note cards with drawings done by the children of the village ...

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