The News Review:

- Sierra Leone: Specialist Explains Plights of VVF/RVF Affected Women
- Sierra Leone: Helen Keller International Keen to Fight NTDs
- Liberia: Sierra Leone Court Chases Taylor’s Millions
- Sierra Leone: Training for Untrained, Unqualified Teachers

Sierra Leone: Specialist Explains Plights of VVF/RVF Affected Women
AllAfrica.com – Mar 5, 2008
They have been discriminated against and disdained by society and even worse than that, their husbands have always treated them as subordinates rather than equal partners. Women were also targeted during the war as they were subjected to rape, forced marriage, forced labour, amputation, stomach dissection, sex slaves and even killed at closed range. GA_googleFillSlot(”AllAfrica_Story_Inset”); Though this has been the general treatment meted out to women, they have always shown their determination to move from such an abysmally poor status to an improved, equal-class one. It is most exhilarating to note that the Chief Justice of the country is a brilliant woman.

Sierra Leone: Helen Keller International Keen to Fight NTDs
AllAfrica.com – Mar 5, 2008
The programme which took place at the Bank of Sierra Leone Recreational Complex was also used to launch a programme for the control of NTDs in Sierra Leone. GA_googleFillSlot(”AllAfrica_Story_Inset”); The Coalition for NTDs control in Sierra Leone led by Hellen Keller International is to receive funding from USAID to control diseases such as Onchocerciasis, Lymphatic filariasis, Schistosomiasis, Soil Transmitted Helminthes and trachoma for a three-year period. Director of Trachoma and Training of HKI in America, Chad MacArthur said NTDs are poverty-stricken diseases that affect the lives of many people adding that everybody should come on board to help fight the disease. Senior NTD Specialist, Dr Dieudonne Sankara said more than 4.

Liberia: Sierra Leone Court Chases Taylor’s Millions
AllAfrica.com – Mar 5, 2008
He is on trial accused of funding rebels in Sierra Leone while in office. Taylor denies the charges, but the chief prosecutor says if he is convicted for pillage, he wants his alleged stolen millions to be returned. GA_googleFillSlot(”AllAfrica_Story_Inset”); "If we can get the money back to the victims, then that’s a critical part of justice," Stephen Rapp told the BBC.

Sierra Leone: Training for Untrained, Unqualified Teachers
AllAfrica.com – Mar 5, 2008
It was organized to build the capacity of untrained teachers in areas such as classroom management, teaching methods and records, curriculum and leadership. GA_googleFillSlot(”AllAfrica_Story_Inset”); Programme manager of YAI Donald Kalokoh said his organization’s focus was on those categories of teachers who have not had formal training and whose situation has not attracted much attention from potential benefactors. He said there was need to capacitate teachers with basic teaching methods so that children, who are the leaders of tomorrow, would in turn get quality education and thus transform the society to a more pro-active and development oriented both one. Relevant Links West AfricaEconomy, Business and FinanceEducationLabourNGOs and Civil SocietySierra Leone Representative from the West Africa youth network Benjamin Sesay called on participants to make good use of the knowledge acquired and to ensure that school going children are given adequate knowledge for quality education at grassroots level.