The Center for Alternative Development Strategies (CADS) Sierra Leone / Global Network

President and Chief Development Officer: Kenday "Ken" Samuel Kamara
-- We have focused on the infinite capacity of Africa, that Africa has the human and natural resource to lift herself out of poverty into a life of peace, prosperity and dignity. In this very moment of our continent's history, this assertion truly reveals the question that should be exercising the minds of well meaning Africans to come up with strategies on how to get out of this penury trap of disease, poverty and wars the continent is deeply fraught with! -- KSK.
To Contact Mr. Kenday "Ken" Samuel Kamara, Send an Email to:
CadsIntlPrograms@aol.com

Programs Coordinator:
Mathew Congo
-- Dishonest and Unethical conduct of NGO operators in Africa account for the non-performance of local NGOs. CADS Sierra Leone is consistently working to remedy such limitation for the good
of Sierra Leone.
To Contact Mr. Congo, Send an Email to saramathk2002@yahoo.com

National Coordinator:
Brima Wagen
-- Let us put all hands on deck to make the CADS program successful. We already have the support of our rural partners -- BW.
To Contact Mr. Brima Wagen, Send an Email to:
cadsglobal@yahoo.com

Agricultural Projects Coordinator: Ingham B. Carew
-- At CADS we are committed to the people who work with us and who live mostly in rural communities. We do this by working in partnership with them to identify and prioritize needs in education, skills development, and our rural development projects. It is our way of creating a balance through shared opportunities which make for a brighter future.
We are creating a Balance!
-- Ingham Carew
cadssaleone@hotmail.com

What's Your Record???
Most winners struggle through many losses on their way to success. Their reputations as winners are based on the projects they finished, not on how many projects they started. WINNERS DON'T GIVE UP! Take a look at how these
people struggled to become winners.

> Henry Ford failed by going broke five times before he finally succeeded in building cars.
> Babe Ruth, adored and remembered as one of the greatest home run hitters of all time, also was one of the most frequent strikeout victims of all time.
> Richard Hooker worked for seven years on his humorous novel, M*A*S*H*. It was rejected 21 times by publishers before it became a bestseller, a hit movie, and a highly successful TV series.
> Winston Churchill's life was a series of defeats and setbacks until, at the age of 62, he led England out of disaster and on to victory in World War II.

Winners are always persistent. They don't always have the most talent or the most opportunities. To be a winner, you've got to, as they say, "Hang in there!"

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Sierra Leone Web by clicking here!

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President and Chief Development Officer: Kenday "Ken" Samuel Kamara -- We have focused on the infinite capacity of Africa, that Africa has the human and natural resource to lift herself out of poverty into a life of peace, prosperity and dignity. In this very moment of our continent's history, this assertion truly reveals the question that should be exercising the minds of well meaning Africans to come up with strategies on how to get out of this penury trap of disease, poverty and wars the continent is deeply fraught with! -- KSK. To Contact Mr. Kenday "Ken" Samuel Kamara, Send an Email to: CadsIntlPrograms@aol.com Programs Coordinator: Mathew Congo -- Dishonest and Unethical conduct of NGO operators in Africa account for the non-performance of local NGOs. CADS Sierra Leone is consistently working to remedy such limitation for the good of Sierra Leone. To Contact Mr. Congo, Send an Email to saramathk2002@yahoo.com National Coordinator: Brima Wagen -- Let us put all hands on deck to make the CADS program successful. We already have the support of our rural partners -- BW. To Contact Mr. Brima Wagen, Send an Email to: cadsglobal@yahoo.com Agricultural Projects Coordinator: Ingham B. Carew -- At CADS we are committed to the people who work with us and who live mostly in rural communities. We do this by working in partnership with them to identify and prioritize needs in education, skills development, and our rural development projects. It is our way of creating a balance through shared opportunities which make for a brighter future. We are creating a Balance! -- Ingham Carew cadssaleone@hotmail.com What's Your Record??? Most winners struggle through many losses on their way to success. Their reputations as winners are based on the projects they finished, not on how many projects they started. WINNERS DON'T GIVE UP! Take a look at how these people struggled to become winners. > Henry Ford failed by going broke five times before he finally succeeded in building cars. > Babe Ruth, adored and remembered as one of the greatest home run hitters of all time, also was one of the most frequent strikeout victims of all time. > Richard Hooker worked for seven years on his humorous novel, MASH. It was rejected 21 times by publishers before it became a bestseller, a hit movie, and a highly successful TV series. > Winston Churchill's life was a series of defeats and setbacks until, at the age of 62, he led England out of disaster and on to victory in World War II. Winners are always persistent. They don't always have the most talent or the most opportunities. To be a winner, you've got to, as they say, "Hang in there!" To know about what is going on in Sierra Leone please visit the Sierra Leone Web by clicking here! Promoting a Worldwide Community of Informed, Inspired, Committed Citizens Who are Actively Engaged in Confronting the Challenges Facing Humanity -- Information about International Conferences, Scholarship Programs, Etc. Weekly Journal Review The Weekly Journal Review is sent bi-weekly to listserv subscribers. It mainly lists articles from peer-reviewed journals that are not available 'for free' on the World Wide Web. The Weekly Journal Review is published by the Information Centre at the International Institute for Sustainable Development. If you have any questions or comments about this listserv, please contact the list manager Marlene Roy at: mroy@iisd.ca Questions About This Website? Send Email To: CadsIntlPrograms@aol.com Copyright © 2001 CADS Global Network		The Chief Executive of CADS, Mr. Kenday Samuel Kamara (standing with white shirt) addressing the farming community of Mobekay. Home \| Our Constitution \| Our Projects \| Business Opportunities \| Links \| Seeking Collaboration \| Annual Reports \| Minutes Of Meetings With Our Rural Partners \| CADS In Action -- Photo Gallery \| Letters Of Praise \| May PEACE Prevail in Sierra Leone! May PEACE Prevail on Earth! We welcome you to the home page of the Center for Alternative Development Strategies (CADS) Sierra Leone Development Programs and its Global Business and Development Promotion Network.. As you browse through these web pages, We hope that you will find evidence of our work and of warm and compassionate dedication, an inspiring development experience and relevant, life-changing business and development opportunities. If you are considering supporting development projects in Sierra Leone, We kindly ask that you support programs of the Center for Alternative Development (CADS) Sierra Leone. If you have any questions regarding any project(s), please let us know. Email Us!. And Thank You For Visiting Our Website. Document last modified: August 6, 2002 The Constitution of the Center for Alternative Development Strategies (CADS) SIERRA LEONE! Click for Details! Organizational Profile of the Center for Alternative Development Strategies (CADS) Sierra Leone! Click for Details! WHAT'S NEW! DEVELOPMENT -- As Perceived by CADS Sierra Leone! As a research and development organization, we always tend to focus attention to identifying socio-economic and political issues of national importance that require urgent solution, and through dispassionate and objective analysis, try to come up with suggestions for reform in order to bring about a lasting solution to our country's problems. Click For Details! CADS Contribution to DFID Round Table Conference on the Paramount Chief’s Restoration Project -- Held at the British Council in Freetown! Click for Details! International Volunteer from Wisconsin, USA, Mr. Chad Simmons, Successfully Concludes his Volunteering Schedule with CADS Sierra Leone! A Message of Gratitude from the President/CEO of CADS Sierra Leone to Our American Friend, Mr. Chad Simmons! Click for Details! A Volunteer Experience: A Lesson in Perspective A Recount of My Volunteer Work with The Center for Alternative Development Strategies (CADS) Sierra Leone -- January 16^th-April 9^th, 2002 By Chad Simmons: Click Here for Details! A Survey Administered to 53 Members of Various Farming Associations in the Gbonkelenken Chiefdom. The survey was a necessary strategy to gage the Needs of the Community, their Desired Goals and the Impact of the Communal Farming System (CFS) Program Sponsored by the Center for Alternative Development Strategies (CADS) Sierra Leone. Click here for details of the SURVEY! CADS Agricultural Projects Coordinator, Mr. Ingham B. Carew explaining the Communal Farming System (CFS) agricultural development strategy to the Songo community. He was flanked (L) by Chad Simmons, the American volunteer helping CADS, and (R) by the center's CCDEO partner. Mr. Mark Abdul Saccoh. The Seeds Multiplication Farms Project for Rehabilitation, Consolidation and Expansion of the Agricultural Sector in the Gbonkolenken Chiefdom, Tonkolili District. Click for Details! Food for Agricultural Assistance to 53 Registered Community Farming Associations in the Gbonkolenken and Yonni Chiefdoms, Tonkolili District, Northern Province. View table for details! CADS Global Network: Information Management in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies (IMCHE) Project. Click for Details! In The Know Some thoughts shared - an examiner thinks aloud: Click Here For Details! Development - a special feature One of the main changes in the new Specifications is the greater concentration on economic development. We are therefore pleased to be able to offer you this new feature which will build into a comprehensive teaching aid. John Birchall, a Friend of Sierra Leone, will write this column against the background of having been involved in development economics for nearly thirty years. He will build the materials from an historical perspective and will include some references to some of the pioneer materials that helped shape much of the modern thinking on development economics. He will also bring you up to date on the latest web sites etc dedicated to taking the field of development economics into the twenty first century. CADS Sierra Leone to Host the First National Conference on Personal Values, Integrity, Honesty and Patriotism -- December 11, 2002 Because of logistical considerations, the First National Conference has been postponed, and will now be held come December 11, 2002. We hope you are very much impressed with this Campaign Against Corruption in Sierra Leone. But even more, we hope you will act on that belief by making a pledge of: $1,000 $3,000 $5,000 or even $10,000 in support of our First National Conference on Personal Values, Integrity, Honesty and Patriotism now scheduled to be held December 11, 2002. Click Here for Updated Information! Sierra Leone: A Personal Perspective The challenges facing Sierra Leone at a time of change in the external geopolitical environment! A Presentation to be elaborated on at the First National Conference on Personal Values, Integrity, Honesty and Patriotism rescheduled to be held December 11, 2002. "It is both an honour and a privilege to be asked to express my opinions at what is a momentous time in the nation’s history. I have deliberately made my analysis wide-ranging and I have not addressed priorities. I leave the ultimate allocation of precious resources to those elected to take such decisions" -- John Birchall, A British Professor and a Friend of Sierra Leone! Chad Simmons, the International Coordinator from the United States working with CADS Sierra Leone, speaking about community issues to the Songo Community, at Koya Rural in the Western Peninsula area of Sierra Leone. THE SIERRA LEONE DIGEST About the Sierra Leone Digest The Excellence of Development Journalism A Publication of the Center for Alternative Development Strategies (CADS) Sierra Leone -- A digest of different views and opinions of contributing authors since 1994. Balancing the Budget or Unbalancing Human Lives: Structural Adjustment in Africa - An Analysis. An article on IMF and World Bank structural adjustment programs in Africa. It gives a theoretical and historical background to stuctural adjustment in Africa -- Joe A.D. Alie, Phd. Department of History, Fourah Bay College (USL) was commissioned by CADS Sierra Leone to write this article for the Sierra Leone Digest (1994). An Interview With Dr. James Jonah -- Chairman, Interim National Electoral Commission (INEC) As the date scheduled by the NPRC regime to return Sierra Leone to democratic civilian rule drew closer, increased attention was being focused on INEC, the body on which so much depended to transform that objective to reality. Read what the head of INEC then, Dr. James Jonah, told the Sierra Leone Digest (1994). The Land Tenure System in the Provinces ... An Anachronism Among the many factors ear-marked as being responsible for Sierra Leone's inability to achieve sustainable agricultural development and food production, is the land tenure system in the provinces where incidentally ninety eight per cent of the land suitable for agriculture can be found. Mr. Koroma has therefore taken up this issue of land tenure in the provinces, helping to help us understand its implications and what needs to be done to improve the situation. -- By Amadu Koroma: [Mr. Koroma is CADS General Coordinator/Legal and Administrative Affairs. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Fourah Bay College (1986) and a LLB. from the Sierra Leone Law School (1994). He had also recently completed a 4-month course on Human Rights and related Issues at Columbia University in the United States (April 2001). He also runs his private law practice in Freetown - Sierra Leone (1994). University Unwanted! The Center for Alternative Development Strategies (CADS) Sierra Leone, through its journalistic program (the Sierra Leone Digest) now endeavors to encourage erudite scholars to come up with concrete recommendations to help restore the integrity of a once respectable institution of higher learning on the West Coast of Africa. 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(Please allow a week to be completely removed from our system and thanks for your understanding) CADS Sierra Leone Headquarters: 61 Sackville Street PMB 1290 Freetown -- Sierra Leone West Africa Tel: (232 22) 224839 Fax: (232 22) 224439 Email: cadsglobal@yahoo.com To Contact the CADS Global Network -- USA Secretariat Call: Tel: 1 - 720 351 5520 or Send a Fax to: Fax: 1 - 303 937 3798 Or Send an Email to: CadsIntlPrograms@aol.com The Vice President of the Republic of Sierra Leone, Dr. Albert Joe Demby delivering a speech during the CADS/WCPA First Annual Sensitization Conference in June 1996. Seated left is Dr. Kadie Sesay, and third from left is the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs -- Hon. A. A. Koroma, and seated extreme right is the Chief Executive Officer of CADS -- Mr. Kenday Samuel Kamara. The President/Chief Executive of CADS Global Network -- Kenday "Ken" Samuel Kamara -- Visiting the Gambia as an Ambassador of the WCPA/CADS Programs, Donates Rice to Refugees at Basseh. Photo: CEO Kenday S. Kamara Speaking to Refugees at Basseh, The Gambia. Become A CADS Member! CADS is seeking over 100,000 caring, committed Sierra Leoneans and friends of Sierra Leone to its membership this year and next year. This is the level of support that will be required to effectively prevail on the problems troubling Sierra Leone without depending so much on institutional donor support from grant making institutions which are ever more very reluctant to help local NGOs like CADS to advance its struggle against poverty of a nation worn out by over ten years of war. CADS membership is made up of all ages -- Sierra Leoneans and all citizens of other countries in the world who are interested in helping Sierra Leone. All have one thing in common -- the knowledge that the tide of sustainable stability, peace and development is on our side. Click Here for CADS Membership Details! Give a Child a Smile! Click Here to Adopt a Child Severely Affected by the War in Sierra Leone! Great Kids! Volunteers For Humanity! A Project of CADS Sierra Leone Program: Volunteers for Humanity fosters the great desire to learn more about Sierra Leone, and her culture, with a serious intent to discover her way of life. The project builds personal and institutional relationships. Click Here For Details! CADS International Involvement -- Conferences, Festival, Etc. Click Here For Details The Need for an Exclusive Focus: The Rural Poor! Many of the rural poor often live in isolated or remote areas in arid regions or mountain valleys. People living in such areas are not only subjected to social discrimination, but have only minimal access to governmental services or other essential inputs. Another disturbing feature of the rural scene in a large number of developing countries is the plight of rural women and elderly men, left to work on their small farms while young male members migrate to cities. -- The President, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) laments, and CADS Sierra Leone is taking positive steps to help. CADS 1998 Annual Beneficiaries Sensitization Conference: Know more about the work of the NCRRR and the Ministry of Development's NGO Desk in Sierra Leone from speeches by the CADS Sierra Leone's CEO, Mr. Kenday S. Kamara; the National Commission for Reconstruction, Resettlement and Rehabilitation (NCRRR) Commissioner, Mr. Kanja Sesay (pictured right); and the Ministry of Development NGO Desk Coordinator -- Mr. A.R. Dumbuya (left). The Council of Churches Sierra Leone Secretary General -- Mr. Alimamy Koroma (center) chaired the conference. CADS Unique Strategy in Agricultural Sector Development -- The Communal Farming Systems (CFS) Approach: Our CADS national strategy recognizes the critical role of rural communities in the development process of our country. Since 1996 when we had actually focussed our energies to participate in the sustainable development of Sierra Leone, we had contemplated on many alternative strategies we believe would alleviate the inadequacies of our society. Our unique approach towards agricultural sector development - the Communal Farming System agricultural sector development strategy is one of our very serious agenda. CADS CONTRIBUTION TO INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH: Canada -- NGO Survey: This survey is a university-based research project primarily interested in whether CADS has contact with large international NGOs that are based in "developed" western countries, how our NGO gets along with them, our NGO's use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) such as the Internet, and whether we feel ICTs have any negative aspects. Brazil -- A Thesis on the Conflict in Sierra Leone: A group studying History in a University in Brazil engaged in a research on conflict areas all around the world. They chose Sierra Leone as a principal area of their research, with the intention to understand the conflict in Sierra Leone over the last 10 years. CADS helped in the research, and the finished thesis is published in Portuguese. Como atividade de um trabalho interdisciplinar de Organização do Espaço Mundial e Filosofia, foi determinado o estudo de um foco de tensão no espaço mundo. À disciplina Organização do Espaço Mundial interessa localizar este foco de tensão no espaço mundial e regional, formas de ocupação e as relações sócio-econômicas, culturais e ambientais. À Filosofia interessa entender, dentro deste foco de tensão, como se dá a questão da liberdade, da ética e qual concepção antropológica embasa essa análise. Sustainable Rural Community Development Moving Towards Sustainable Futures. This Session of the Salzburg Seminar used examples from Latin America, Africa, the United States, and Central and Eastern Europe to show vibrant and sustainable rural communities how to encourage more participation by their citizens -- including women and youth - while respecting social, cultural, and economic differences. - The President/Chief Executive Officer of CADS, Kenday "Ken" Samuel Kamara participated in this Session held in Salzburg, Austria in February, 1998. 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Welcome to Alternative Development Ideas Sign Guestbook View Guestbook CADS seeks to break down barriers, promotes dialogue and learning and enhances mutual understanding between Sierra Leone and the people of other countries. Communal Farmers Seeking Foreign Partners Our participating communal farmers own extensive farm lands in Sierra Leone and are seeking investors to establish mechanized agricultural farm to produce tropical products for export. Dialogue on the Future of Africa: Alternative Development Strategies for Sustainable Peace and Development in Africa! A Discourse by the Center for Alternative Development Strategies (CADS) Sierra Leone! Africa has the human and natural resource to lift herself out of poverty into a life of peace, prosperity and dignity. In this very moment of our continent's history, this assertion truly reveals the question that should be exercising the minds of well meaning Africans to come up with strategies on how to get out of this penury trap of disease, poverty and wars the continent is deeply fraught with... Certainly, well meaning Africans and friends of Africa have contemplated on various alternative strategies to foster development in Africa. Some are claiming compensation for the inhumanity perpetrated by the slave trade which to them has permanently affected the African's attitude toward development. Some are claiming compensation for the exploitation of colonialism. That, the colonialists grossly exploited Africa's natural resources to extremes that the continent has found it impossible to run itself even after independence in many parts of Africa over three decades ago. -- Click Here for Details!