Editorial Summary: AYM volunteers appreciated my contributions and as a token of their gratitude, they used to offer me cornflour paste. The volunteers contributed money which they used to cook food. Most times, I felt sad observing severe poverty and everyday struggle as my friends struggle for food and basic necessities of life. AYM Volunteers […]
The Billion Dollar Ebola Project Presenter Josh Ruxin is author of A Thousand Hills to Heaven: Love, Hope and A Restaurant in Rwanda, which chronicles his family’s adventures in Africa during the past decade. Ruxin is an international development pioneer whose radical rules for development in poor countries––learned the hard way during two decades living
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The Billion Dollar Ebola Project: How Corruption and the Lack of Trust in West Africa Has Fueled the Ebola Crises Wednesday, January 14, 2015 1 – 2:00 P.M. EST According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Ebola has claimed about 4,818 victims globally since its outbreak in March 2014. With Ebola victims found throughout the
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AYM’s forthcoming Webinar, “Strategy and Planning for Post-Ebola West Africa” takes place on Wednesday, October 22, 2014 at 1 P.M. EST. Check out the Powerpoint presentation Rachel Glennerster and Zeinab Camara – two distinguished individuals – have agreed to present at the Post Ebola Strategy webinar . “Rachel Glennerster is Executive Director of the Abdul
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Sign Up for the Webinar Strategy and Planning for Post-Ebola West Africa Wednesday 22nd of October 2014 Time 1 P.M. EST Did you know that more than 60 % of youth in Sierra Leone were unemployed or underemployed before the Ebola Outbreak? ABOUT THE WEBINAR The fast spread of the Ebola virus has major consequences on
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 16, 2014 CONTACT: Askia Koroma [email protected] 703-672-0631 AYM Center in Mattru Jong, Bonthe District, Sierra Leone Worldwide (aym-inc.org) – We hereby inform the public that the AYM Social Enterprise & Business Incubator Center located at 41A-B Momaligi Road, Mattru Jong, Sierra Leone, West Africa will be temporarily closed, effective September
As the dreaded Ebola virus disease (EVD) ravages across West Africa with a vengeance, afflicting young and old with merciless impunity, it is unfortunate to note that women in Sierra Leone are also bearing the brunt of this horrible epidemic. The deadly Ebola disease ravaging the west coast of Africa has so far claimed the
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Ebola in Sierra Leone Months ago, we anticipated that by the end of year 2014, the number of youth gainfully employed by AYM in Sierra Leone will be around 25. Those anticipations are already in doubt due to two factors: the Sierra Leone Ebola epidemic and theft at the center. Sierra Leone is back in
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