tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34945861130274555402024-02-06T20:37:54.626-08:00Digital HopeB-Gifted Foundation's Creative CourageBGifted Foundation http://www.blogger.com/profile/04581646920599487850noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3494586113027455540.post-24331819250475231522019-05-11T09:18:00.003-07:002019-11-26T09:43:07.420-08:00Digital Hope Livelihood and skills training enlivens Victims of Amputation in Sierra Leone 2019<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<u><span style="color: blue;">From a tragic past to a hopeful future.</span></u></h2>
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<u></u><span style="color: blue;"></span><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">Persons with Disabilities especially Amputees and war-wounded faced a lot of discrimination within the community they live. Over the years, the Central Government has initiated lot of programmes and measures for the welfare of PWDs by enacting a number of legislative policies for the welfare of persons with disability in the country and the community they live. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">However, most of the actions taken by the government are absence of programmes that will develop their residual skills and day to day functional abilities and therefore PWDs in this community tend to grow up being dependent on others and deprived of gainful livelihood opportunities in most cases.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">This is the premise behind the livelihood project which will integrate the Digital Hope Initiative backed by livelihood programs that will create opportunities for amputees and make them functioning members of society.</span></div>
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BGifted Foundation http://www.blogger.com/profile/04581646920599487850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3494586113027455540.post-20188657067499626112013-06-04T04:52:00.001-07:002016-06-30T23:08:36.713-07:00B-Gifted Foundation - Digital Hope Receives Another International Awards<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6KNdS5Bt9M4pHGRJM5wGGfXTDuI-K38FlcRvH6kP0WzAedMvsoMeCH_rCwX_hIFHZkuU0dGVV6tTIB9EMeAAQIW8d5B8dOBtPW3_gBafmF64IS-31Sg_M0P2Ss8mfHev8qiuWkPUSd-tG/s1600/teach.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6KNdS5Bt9M4pHGRJM5wGGfXTDuI-K38FlcRvH6kP0WzAedMvsoMeCH_rCwX_hIFHZkuU0dGVV6tTIB9EMeAAQIW8d5B8dOBtPW3_gBafmF64IS-31Sg_M0P2Ss8mfHev8qiuWkPUSd-tG/s1600/teach.jpg" /></a><span class="text3"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[B-Gifted
Foundation of Sierra Leone], </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=www%2Ebgiftedfoundation%2Eorg&urlhash=L90O&_t=mbox_mebc"><span style="color: blue;">www.bgiftedfoundation.org</span></a><span class="text3"> Announced as</span><br />
<span class="text3">Winner of ‘Educating Africa’ Award</span><span class="text3">.</span><br />
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<span class="text3">[B-Gifted Foundation of Sierra Leone], has been named as on
of the organizations with the most entrepreneurial approach to education </span>
<span class="text3">Sierra Leone, in the Educating Africa Pan-African Awards for</span><br />
<span class="text3">Entrepreneurship in Education.</span><br />
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<span class="text3">With over 350 entries from all over Africa, [B-Gifted
Foundation of </span>
<span class="text3">Sierra Leone] has done exceptionally well to be named a
country winner </span>
<span class="text3">in the competition. It’s unique and entrepreneurial approach
to </span>
<span class="text3">education meant that it caught the judges’ attention even
despite this </span>
<span class="text3">being the most competitive competition to date. This is the
fifth time</span><br />
<span class="text3">that the Pan African Awards for Entrepreneurship in Education
have </span>
<span class="text3">been run by UK-based international development charity, Teach
A Man To </span>
<span class="text3">Fish.</span><br />
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<span class="text3">As a country prize winner, [B-Gifted Foundation of Sierra
Leone], are </span>
<span class="text3">entitled to prize winnings of USD $1,000. Now it is time to
scale up! </span>
<span class="text3">We are looking at raising additional $4000 to set up another
ICT </span>
<span class="text3">education centre for war victims. Your donation can make a
real</span>
<span class="text3">difference.</span><br />
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<span class="text3">[B-Gifted Foundation of Sierra Leone], uses creativity and
technology </span>
<span class="text3">to address human rights, enhance peace and development.
B-GIFTED </span>
<span class="text3">Foundation strives to make the world a better place with a
tightly </span>
<span class="text3">threaded tapestry of creative ideas. B-GIFTED Foundation is a </span>
<span class="text3">non-profit organization that was named at the behest & in
honour of an</span><br />
<span class="text3">eponymous peace activist & human rights educator, who,
over time, has </span>
<span class="text3">used creativity & technology to buttress his growing
corpus of </span>
<span class="text3">groundbreaking peacemaking & culture-building endeavours.
Where ideas </span>
<span class="text3">bloom & blossom, triumph draws nigh, our programs,
steadily hoisted </span>
<span class="text3">from the doldrums, thereby may over- leap myriad moats and
mountains.</span><br />
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<span class="text3">The aim of the competition was to identify and celebrate the </span>
<span class="text3">achievements of social entrepreneurs who understand the role
education</span>
<span class="text3">can play within their communities. ‘'With this competition we
were </span>
<span class="text3">looking for programmes which are innovative, sustainable and
create </span>
<span class="text3">real impact – and we have found them. By awarding them we
hope to</span><br />
<span class="text3">encourage others to imitate winner’s approach and work
towards more</span>
<span class="text3">and better education in Africa’’, says Nik Kafka, Managing
Director of</span>
<span class="text3">Teach A Man To Fish.</span><br />
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<span class="text3">More about the competition</span>
<span class="text3">Now in its fifth year, the 2012 Pan African Awards for</span>
<span class="text3">Entrepreneurship continue to reward organizations in Africa
that use</span>
<span class="text3">innovative and entrepreneurial techniques to fill gaps in
educational</span>
<span class="text3">services across the continent.</span><br />
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<span class="text3">Entries were assessed against the criteria of
entrepreneurship,</span>
<span class="text3">sustainability, and impact. The winners were selected by a
panel of</span>
<span class="text3">international judges, with the top entry receiving a prize of
$10,000</span>
<span class="text3">and the two runners-up prizes of $5,000. There is also a $1,000
prize</span>
<span class="text3">for the best entry for each country.</span><br />
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<span class="text3">More about the winners </span>
<span class="text3">More detailed information about this year’s winners is
available here:</span>
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<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fteachamantofish%2Eorg%2Euk%2Fpan-african-awards-2012-winners&urlhash=wZUh&_t=mbox_mebc"><span style="color: blue;">http://teachamantofish.org.uk/pan-african-awards-2012-winners</span></a><br />
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<span class="text3">More about the competition organizers</span><br />
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<span class="text3">TeachAManToFish is an international non-profit organization
working to</span>
<span class="text3">improve the relevancy, quality, and availability of education
in</span>
<span class="text3">developing countries. Our pioneering approach uses
profit-making</span>
<span class="text3">school-run businesses to teach entrepreneurship and
livelihood skills. </span><span class="text3">This model allows schools to generate additional income,
improving</span>
<span class="text3">their financial sustainability, while at the same time
enabling them</span>
<span class="text3">to offer a more relevant and higher quality education.</span><br />
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<span class="text3">For more information visit </span><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=www%2Eteachamantofish%2Eorg%2Euk&urlhash=oIjs&_t=mbox_mebc"><span style="color: blue;">www.teachamantofish.org.uk</span></a><br />
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<span class="text3">Educating Africa is a foundation committed to introducing
cost</span>
<span class="text3">effective and sensible education initiatives throughout
Africa, and to</span>
<span class="text3">acknowledging some of the tremendous educational projects
that have</span>
<span class="text3">been developed across the continent. It is apparent that
there are</span>
<span class="text3">superb educational ideas, generous benefactors and
intellectual</span>
<span class="text3">capital that is willing and able to be invested in worthwhile</span>
<span class="text3">educational projects. However, often there is a mismatch in
linking</span>
<span class="text3">the various groups. Educating Africa seeks to bridge this gap
and</span>
<span class="text3">match up these groups.</span>
<span class="text3">For more information visit </span><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=www%2EEducatingAfrica%2Ecom&urlhash=kZJI&_t=mbox_mebc"><span style="color: blue;">www.EducatingAfrica.com</span></a><br />
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BGifted Foundation http://www.blogger.com/profile/04581646920599487850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3494586113027455540.post-55722958693680997202013-06-04T04:39:00.002-07:002013-06-04T04:39:52.647-07:00DIGITAL HOPE EXHIBITED AT ITU TELECOM WORLD IN DUBAI 2012<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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transformation of the ICT industry and the implications for policy, regulation
and competitive strategy.<br /><br />This transformation is driven by game changers,
the trends and technologies revolutionizing the industry and the world we live
in.The Young Innovators Competition at ITU Telecom World 2012 offers social
entrepreneurs aged 18-25 years old the opportunity to shine a global ICT
spotlight on their innovative ideas and digital creativity.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8x3bxJzZ_ryLSIzbWMGbhf69tDYCMCpfkHlrOesstQ0WCzj7MOTNLbGVHzl-q1qe6EBP52pDSyDOL1KYqvS9EAJm0W3_QZfWoNThD2n2lW7vBjjEkfAP2b8IPOaPxbJawzTyIOJG4P9w/s1600/22706_10152383739135001_706730177_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a>Nearly 400 young entrepreneurs from 77 countries around the
world submitted innovative ICT-based early concepts or mature projects -
demonstrating how fresh thinking and talent for technology can provide
real-world solutions to real-world problems and change the future for the
better.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">The objective of the Digital Hope project
is to provide innovative ICT skills amongst amputee war victims as tools to
enhance education and a means of access to sustainable livelihood. The
project’s aim is to use ICT as tool to creating an inclusive society. The
project uses innovative approaches to engage war victims [whose arms and limbs were amputated] during Sierra Leone's civil war to be productive via ICT. They are for the first time given a new lease of hope of access to technology which was not the case before the project began. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">The project is
helping to bridge the digital divide by targeting an approximately approximately 2,000
amputee war victims marginalized from information technology. The project is
creating impact as it is giving war amputated victims a new voice through ICT
tools and a way to learn skills with a potential for employment and
empowerment, and a chance to bear witness and share their war time stories to
the world thereby creating attention to their plight, hope and healing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Although there is peace across the entire country currently, most of the war
victims still cannot live a normal life, and marginalized from the main stream
of using Information Communication Technologies (ICT). This educational
practice in a non-formal setting creates the leverage for people who are unable
to access facilities at a formal education setting because of their conditions
to be able to do so at last. The project does shows what can be achieved
through creating a space for people with disability to gain access to
educational tools.</span></div>
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B-Gifted Foundation Digital Hope</h2>
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Creative Courage</h2>
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Journey of Hope</h2>
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Journey of Hope</h2>
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B-Gifted Foundation Digital Hope</h2>
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Creative Courage</h2>
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Creative Courage - B-Gifted's Journey of Hope</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #595959; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-no-proof: yes;">The project has created the
widespread impact that disabed people especially those impacted and amputated
by the war, can have equal educational opportunities enhanced by the use of
ICT. The project which is geared towards providing ICT and elearning educational
possibilities to an approximated 20,000 people brutally amputated by the decade
long conflict is already began to target rural amputee camps narrowing the
marginalization of these people from the main stream of using Information
Communication Technologies (ICT) and the information society. This has raised
awareness about the rights of disabled in several other spheres of life. The
project is also giving voices to these victims. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #595959; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">The project offers new possibiities for access to learning
for learners with disabiity and speaks volumes of the potentials of ICT in
education has for an inclusive society. This interaction is made possible by
the information society for the beneficiaries who have previously detached
themselves from society due to their war induced disability. The project
encourages the beneficiaries to make informed decisions and the benefits in the
use of ICT. Through this unique learning experience, trust and life-skills are
built which enable the war victims to reach out to others across the world and
become gobal citizens</span></div>
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Amputee victims of war benefiting from the<br />
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Victims of amputation displaying the award-winning<br />
B-Gifted Foundation ITU award-winning Digital Hope ICT banner<br />
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Beneficiary displaying his use of new technologies<br />
to sell his craft work. Despite his disability caused<br />
by war, this young man in Sierra Leone, like the rest<br />
of his colleagues have discovered tools previously<br />
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Creative Courage</td></tr>
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Testing the ICT equipment at the B-Gifted Foundation<br />
Digital Hope ICT centres<br />
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Gender, Disability and ICT. Women and Girls at the<br />
B-Gifted Foundation Digital Hope centre are afforded<br />
Equal opportunities to learn and grow their talents,<br />
despite their disability and amputation caused by the war<br />
in Sierra Leone. <br />
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Digital Hope ICT centres training in session<br />
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Digital Hope ICT centres training in session<br />
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Founder of B-Gifted and innovator behind the digital<br />
hope project and a beneficiary displaying the donated laptop<br />
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Former <b><a href="https://www.johngraham.org/biography">US Diplomat 'John Graham</a>,</b> visited the Amputee Camps to hear first Hand the stories of war victims supported by B-Gifted Foundation</div>
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<b>“The B-Gifted foundation has developed many tools, including, for example the imaginative use of technology to give war amputees needed skills so that they can rebuild their lives as well as their country, as well as raise the resources they need to carry out their dreams. The B-Gifted Foundation also helps war victims by documenting their personal stories, and in that process gives them hope.Now the scourge of Ebola has hit this poor country, adding that human and physical destruction to the conflagration of the civil war. Again, the B-Gifted Foundation is at the center of efforts to rebuild the peace and rebuild the country.Peace building amongst children and youth is the main activity of the B-Gifted Foundation and, considering the strong feelings remaining after the brutal civil war, there is considerable risk in carrying out the Foundation’s work. Yet it forges ahead. 2500 people have been served directly and 5,000 indirectly in Freetown, Makena Town in the Northern Province and Bo Town in the Southern Province. B-Gifted's work sites is fully supported by the people it serves. Its most popular peace-building programs include, Rising Artist Rap for Rights, the Digital Hope Project, the Waging Peace not War Project, the Support to Survivors of Amputation Project and the Love and Forgiveness Project”. John Graham, President Giraffe Heroes international</b></div>
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Founder Greene, Speaking at the ITU Telecom World 2011 in Geneva at the International Open Innovation Competition.</div>
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These war victims are also marginalized from the mainstream of the information Society.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The project ‘Digital Hope’ has began to target these amputees facing exclusion from ICT by providing the relevant ICT tools through an ICT piloted multi-media community access centre at one of several amputee camps in the country. This is providing the war victims ICT skills, hope and healing and giving them a powerful voice in the mass media. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The beneficiaries are learning basic ICT skills, and this is creating a great access to learning for learners with disability, and the much needed space to share their war-time stories with the rest of the world. </p>BGifted Foundation http://www.blogger.com/profile/04581646920599487850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3494586113027455540.post-52046402150263236902012-01-02T09:30:00.002-08:002017-05-12T10:56:56.670-07:00DIGITAL HOPE PROJECT UNVEILED - A Journey of Hope<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ-rOP8QWcZB33jU70cyn1bCKVzAXdjZcLROVJ6ZZLjcLSAup_EvEoDSaOg_qhF0x6Q5pvTAsYameA9bVdNJW3cmV3KFBD4-gVshYiCo-p0bCqrPrCb6c8eZU2NiMn1UBtNJoy2GxPtZtZ/s1600/digital+hope"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5693564722246496322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ-rOP8QWcZB33jU70cyn1bCKVzAXdjZcLROVJ6ZZLjcLSAup_EvEoDSaOg_qhF0x6Q5pvTAsYameA9bVdNJW3cmV3KFBD4-gVshYiCo-p0bCqrPrCb6c8eZU2NiMn1UBtNJoy2GxPtZtZ/s320/digital+hope" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 240px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 320px;" /></a>The digital hope project has been unveiled in the Northern suburb town of Makeni at the Oslo amputee camp on December 27th 2011. The B-Gifted Team journeyed from the capital Freetown, some considerable distance to the project site. With the ICT gadgets the B-Gifted Foundation ventured into the communiuties to unveil the equipments and technology gadgets that can help bring an audible voice to the victims of amputation who are marginalized from the mainstream of ICT.<br />
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The unveiling started with prayers and thanks giving, and followed by the founder's introduction of the technology equipment and their importance in carrying out the ICT projects. The Chairman at the Oslo Camp, thanked the B-Gifted Foundation for putting into reality a dream centre. He said that 'these technologies will help them to share their pains and hope with the rest of the world'.<br />
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BGifted Foundation http://www.blogger.com/profile/04581646920599487850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3494586113027455540.post-52391719944165368312012-01-02T08:59:00.000-08:002016-06-30T23:10:44.692-07:00A Journey of hope!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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ITU Awards and Consultations<br />
Site visit and consultations with beneficiaries. Travels to –Oslo Amputee Camp Makeni -Friday 9th December 2011<br />
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On a motor bike bound for the dusty narrow road to the Oslo amputee camp in a rural suburb, some five miles away from the Northern Head Town of Makeni, Andrew’s focus was to share the inspirational stories of the ITU awards he has received to help support the amputee victims of war in Sierra Leone with telecommunication and technology support. From Friday, 9th December to Sunday 11th December, the B-Gifted Founder and two volunteer staff, journeyed from the capital city Freetown to the Northern town of Makeni, to share the great news of the awards to the amputees and to make final consultations with the amputee victims of war who will soon become beneficiaries to a community ICT access centre that will give them a powerful voice via ICT. The amputee camp was built by a Norwegian NGO and is called Oslo Camp. The camp is actually a series of pretty white and blue houses, all with gardens marked by low shrubs. The amputees are offered the accommodation for free, because even though many of them could work despite their injuries, prejudice in Sierra Leone often means they are passed over for jobs. It’s a double blow for those who have been victims of the war, and are still held-back by the past.<br />
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From the time peace was declared in Sierra Leone in 2002, leading to the holding of elections, the country has been graded as one of the poorest in the world, hugely depending on international aid for survival, whilst helping war victims has become one of the serious challenges in the country.<br />
Over 50,000 people died as a result of the war, with thousands of people having their hands and legs chopped off and many more people displaced. Although there is peace across the entire country currently, most of the war victims, amputees survivors of war still cannot live as normal human beings, and marginalized from the main stream of using Information Communication Technologies (ICT) and the information society. Apart from the serious economic hardships facing amputees and most war victims in Sierra Leone, the amputees are still discriminated against from using ICT, and most of them have not even seen a Personal Computer. However, many of the amputees do rely on handouts and the good will of others. Even though many have professions in wood carving, farming, capentary, Honda maintenance, gara dying they can hardly make a good living without a way to sell their products. At the meeting, the chairman of the Oslo Amputee Camp, an amputee himself, thanked profusely the founder of the B-Gifted Foundation for the “opportunity that he has brought to create a space for their voices to be heard and their needs to be addressed via ICT”. An amputee Mohamed, who is a student at one of the Higher Institutes of Learning in Makeni Town, also thanked the founder of B-Gifted and the entire B-Gifted Staff, and noted that “the challenges we face as amputees are huge and nobody seems to have time for us, not even government, but with these technologies we expect soon, and the opportunity created we will ourselves informed and share our voices so others around the world can hear us and know our plight”. Another student, (an amputee called Archippus T. Sesay, said that “this technologies will help us at the time when many People in Sierra Leone feel or believe that having time for amputees would only waste their time or make life more uncomfortable for them in their current harsh conditions”. He added that “with the thought of the unique chance to communicate now, with these technologies and support created by B-Gifted and ITU, we are full of hope, even as much as we were full of hope when the 11-year conflict ended in 2002”. Archippus affirmed that “our major challenges are discrimination against getting access to education and health, and gaining employment, and this can be achieved through ICT.” B-Gifted Founder speaks to a Cross-section of the amputee beneficiaries at the Oslo Amputee Camp in Makeni Northern Sierra Leone<br />
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B-Gifted Founder Andrew Benson Greene said that he was concerned about ‘the very high levels of discrimination, marginalization and lack of access to ICT and essential services like health, education and welfare for amputee war victims” .<br />
Greene said that “in a country with very severe economic and social challenges, this is even more of a challenging situation when it comes to amputees and disabled people in the country”. He said that “for us Sierra Leoneans, we need to help our fellow compatriots who as a result of a decade of brutal civil war and carnage that has left behind thousands of maimed children, women and men, we must not make this disability of amputee a distant notion anymore but to think it as a reality close to our hearts and work hard to help them, or else the reality of suffering will continue.<br />
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The Founder also noted that “ I believe that these technologies will help to inform, educate and change the lives of people from these established amputee camps . He said that “ this intervention will not only scratch the surface, but these technologies will be a salve in the wounds and help assuage the difficulties the amputees face”. The Amputees were very delighted by the prospects and ensure providing a safe and secure place to store the equipment for a community access centre. They also confirmed that the project will be successful as this is the first of its kind for them. A memorandum of Understanding was signed as a way for both the B-Gifted Foundation and the Amputees at the Oslo Camp, to commit themselves to the success of the digital hope project. The B-Gifted Founder confirmed that the equipments and necessary ICT will be brought to the camp very soon to be put into motion for the project to kick off.</div>
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