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Sierra Visions Introduces TBCS Interns 2007

After over 500 applications to join our TBCS Summer 2007 Internship Program Sierra Visions wishes to introduce our first group of interns. Please check back soon to meet the rest of them....

CELTEL LTD SL: A leader in Corporate Social Responsibility In Sierra Leone

CELTEL & SIERRA VISIONS INC WANT YOU TO "COME BACK HOME & BUILD YOUR NATION"
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Back In Business
Last year the GoSL and the UK DFID embarked on the "Sierra Leone: Back in Business" Campaign; an effort to bring investors back into Sierra Leone. I dont know if this campaign has increased the number of investors in the country but i think GoSL and DFID were more concerned with the process of the campaign rather than outcome. Long before Sierra Leone was back in business, in 2000 when the biggest investor in the country was probably the UNAMSIL peace keepers, CELTEL International B.V became one of the first multinational companies to begin operations in Sierra Leone. Since then CELTEL has invested millions of dollars into Sierra Leone's economy, making it the number 1 provider of mobile phone services in the country.

Sierra Leone Independence Celebration

A SIERRA LEONE CELEBRATION WEEKEND (NYC)

Best Selling Author Ishmael Beah celebrates Sierra Leone Independence with a special reading for the Sierra Leone Community on April 28th 2007, 6pm @ Lava Gina, NYC

Should Sierra Leoneans start blogging, Or leave it to the foreign bloggers?

Foreign Bloggers in Sierra Leone: the good, the bad, and the culturally insensitive

I have been blogging for a year or so now and its been great. Recently I got an email from http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/ and was asked to be a volunteer author/blogger for Sierra Leone. My responsibility would be to do a round up of interesting Salone related issues that bloggers were discussing. That means I have to read any and all blogs that discussed Salone. In the course of this process, I’ve discovered two things: (1) most people blogging about Salone are foreigners living there (2) I don’t completely like the way some of these bloggers present/discuss Salone and its people.

Claiming Ishmael Beah...

On March 5th 2007, I had the opportunity to sit in on a reading by author of a Long Way Gone; Ishmeal Beah. I was a tad bit late so I missed the reading itself. The room was packed full with standing room only for me and my two salone friends who were unlucky enough to be late. The room was full of mostly white folks and my two friends and I accounted for 50% of the Sierra Leonean population in the room...

Volunteering in Sierra Leone: A MUST DO

Between time spent with family, going to the beach and all night booty shaking at Paddy's there is a lot that someone can do in Sierra Leone. Since the summer of 2003 I have been back home 4 times. I spent both the summer of '03 and '04 at home and christmas 04 and Christmas 05. So its easy to see that i'm clearly addicted...

The Fallacy of the American Dream

I was on a bus from Maryland to New York and somewhere between exit 5 and 6 on the NJ Turnpike the Chinatown bus had to make a detour because of the holiday traffic. We ended up driving through what seemed to be the most banal towns in America�