Kenday S. Kamara: Founder and CEO of CADS Sierra Leone/Global Network
I would like to welcome you to the home page of the Center for Alternative Development Strategies (CADS) Global Network. As you browse through these pages, I 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, I ask that you consider CADS Global Network. If you have any questions regarding any project(s) you will like
to consider funding,
I invite you to let us know.
And thank you for visiting our web site. May God bless you!

Prayer For Sierra Leone

The Center for Alternative Development Strategies (CADS) Sierra Leone Program

The Constitution of the Center for Alternative Development Strategies (CADS) Sierra Leone Program

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 International Involvement/Conferences, Festivals, Etc.
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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 Affiars -- Hon. A. A. Koroma, and seated extreme right is the Chief Executive Officer of CADS -- Mr. Kenday Samuel Kamara.

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Alternatively, CADS wishes to recommend further an opportunity as part of what needs to be done in a very positive, non-political way to help Sierra Leone. Visit the website listed below to evaluate for yourself the opportunity presented in that web site, and agree to sign on - and you are on the way to helping Sierra Leone and to helping yourself at the same time. The website to visit is: http://www.ezinfocenter.com/2002478/FREE

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The CADS Mariner:
A Fundraising boat Project of CADS Sierra Leone designed and implemented as a commercially viable fundraising project supporting the important work of CADS in the rural communities of Koya and York, and its project for the Disabled.

CADS 1998 Annual Beneficiaries Sensitization Conference -- Click here to know more about the work of the NCRRR and the Ministry of Development's NGO desk in Sierra Leone from speeches by the center'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.

"With the growing complexity of the challenges confronting our country, the CADS agenda values the expanding role of civil society in governance and development, and a strong need for research-based knowledge on the crucial challenges facing our civil society, especially our rural communities which are often slighted and neglected when it comes to development issues. How we are going to strategize to get the message of our CADS agenda for practical and sustainable development heard nationally and internationally, is all we care about now. Therefore, bringing together today civil society activists and practitioners, our rural beneficiaries as well as government leaders, to understand the core issues facing our society and to generate new knowledge and innovation in practice consistent with the objects of CADS is all what we have so far to strongly project our message".
-- Kenday Samuel Kamara, President/CEO during the CADS Annual Beneficiaries and Sensitization Conference, May 1, 1998

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.
-- Farm association members of Foindu village eating a meal during a lunch break from cultivating their communal farm.

An affiliate farm association posed with CADS staff for a group photo at Nyandehum village in Koya Rural.

Institutional Support Donations

We are engaged in programs with tremendous potentials we would like you to evaluate by navigating our website at cadsglobalnet. Currently, our organization, the Center for Alternative Development Strategies (CADS) Global Network, a network of nearly ten years of Research & Development experiences, is working towards contributing to the peace and development process in Sierra Leone in a sustainable manner, through advocacy efforts for relief, resettlement, rehabilitation of rural farm families. Our intervention strategy involves emphasis on community and group participation in every development activities to ensure self-help sustainability efforts. Our program operations are currently restricted to 25 villages in the rural districts of Koya and York in the Western Area of Sierra Leone. We would appreciate institutions' and individuals' effort in providing any form of support to compliment our development aspirations for the common good of our troubled society.

Kindly donate Vans, Trucks, buses, Computers, Farm Tools, Seed Rice, Fertilizers, Books, Pencils, Pens, Calculators, Reams of Paper, Medicines, Canned Food -- just anything good you can offer -- to strengthen the work of this indigenous organization for the sustainable betterment and development of the disadvantaged people of Sierra Leone.
Please let us know what you can offer!





CADS Sierra Leone Headquarters:
61 Sackville Street
PMB 1290
Freetown -- Sierra Leone
West Africa

Tel: (232 22) 225051
Fax: (232 22) 224439
Email: CadsIntlPrograms@aol.com

CADS Global Network --
USA Office:
1361 S. Irving St.
Denver, CO 80219
United States of America

Tel: 1 - 720 351 5520
Fax: 1 - 303 937 3798
Email: CadsIntlPrograms@aol.com

"Awakening Faith In Third World NGOs"
Fundraising Membership Drive
Becoming a CADS Donor Member Will Strengthen Our Work In Sierra Leone!
Grant making agencies ALWAYS regret NOT to fund our credible local initiatives.
You Can!
Support the 100,000 membership drive of CADS!
Support CADS today! Your $55, $75, $100, or $1,000 membership donation will not be spent on air-conditioned vehicles or beach resorts. Your membership donation will be spent to alleviate poverty and sustain development in Sierra Leone.

Read More About Our "Awakening Faith In Third World NGOs" Fundraising Membership Drive
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CADS staff distributing seed rice
to our Communal Framing Systems (CFS) farm community in Koya Rural who simply need maximum help not minimum help from the international donor community to be more productive.

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.
-- ABDELMUHSIN M. AL-SUDEARY
President
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

Third World Initiatives
A CADS Global Network Newsletter
about the Power, Prestige and Corruption of the International Aid Business

The Sierra Leone Digest
The Excellence of Development Journalism
A Publication of the Center for Alternative Development Strategies (CADS) Sierra Leone
In sponsoring the Sierra Leone Digest, the Center for Alternative Development Strategies (CADS) Sierra Leone aims to met the need for a journal of significant thought and opinion on social, political, economic, cultural and development issues in Sierra Leone. The Digest of different views represent the opinions of the research and development department of CADS Sierra Leone, as well as the opinions of contributing authors which does not necessarily reflect the center's viewpoint or position. The sponsorship of the Sierra Leone Digest by the Center is in line with its journalistic program to research and propound issues of development value to the Government and people of Sierra Leone, and foster interdependence and international cooperation, protect human rights and promote Sierra Leonean cultural interest and creative achievement in the world.

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CADS seeks to break down barriers, promotes dialogue and learning and enhances mutual understanding between Sierra Leone and the people of other countries.

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.
The 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!

The Best of Bits & Pieces
ACCORDING TO LEGEND, when Michelangelo started out, he was ignored by his own generation and disdained by art critics. But he had faith in his ability, and he decided to use some psychology on his critics.
He knew they were fascinated when someone excavated an old ruin and dug up supposedly priceless work of art, so he stained one of his works and had it buried where an excavating party was sure to find it.
The critics were enraptured. They pronounced it a work of rare value. The Cardinal of San Giorgio was so impressed that he paid a large sum for it. Then Michelangelo let the cat out of the bag. The art critics had no choice but to admit that he was an artistic genius. After that, Michelangelo was commissioned to do important work.

The Sub-Saharan African Chamber of Commerce, Inc.
A non-profit organization promoting trade and investment between the United States of America and the countries of Sub-Saharan Africa under the African Growth and Opportunity Act initiatives recently enunciated by the U.S. Congress.

US Support is Imperative
to the Economic Development
of Africa
-- Andrew Young urges fellow Americans

Democracy is both a privilege and a responsibility. I regret that our country has not been more successful in forging a post-cold war, post-apartheid Africa policy. Now, however the time for delay has passed ….
US support is imperative to the economic development of Africa but Africa is also important to the United States. Africa may be the world's richest continent. Its oil reserves, mineral resources and a market of some 700 million people provide a missing link in the equation of the global economy. Africa's need for transportation, communication, food, security, clean water and health care offers absorptive capacity, which is available in very few places on the globe.
We have the opportunity to meet the challenge of global poverty and environmental degradation and forge a brighter future for ourselves and our brothers and sisters on the African continent.
Someone is going to have to help Africa build the roads, the bridges, harness its powerful rivers and water resources, wipe out its diseases, grow and process food for its hungry millions. The American experience in religion, education, technology and commerce is directly applicable to these tasks. Moreover, Africa appreciates America's struggle to maintain a prosperous democracy with an enormously diverse racial and ethnic population.
I am convinced that the US democratic success has always been intertwined with our economic growth and prosperity. Together, we can forge a vision and a plan that will enable the countries of Africa to share in the benefits of both democracy and prosperity.
Peace and blessings.
Andrew Young

Exchange Rates
Exchange rates for the Leone against the U.S. Dollar and Pound Sterling, posted in Freetown: [Buying / Selling] Standard Chartered Bank: [$] 1650 / 1950 [£] 2300 / 2700. Commercial Bank: [$] 1650 / 1850. [£] 2500 / 2700. Frandia: [$] 1700 / 2050 [£] 2400 / 2850. Continental: [$] 1700 / 2000 [£] 2450 / 2900.

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