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	MUSA A. SOKO


Title and Organization:		PROGRAM COORDINATOR, YOUTH PARTNERSHIP FOR PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT - SIERRA LEONE
Gender and Age:		Male, 22
Location:		Freetown, Western Area
Country of Residence:		Sierra Leone
Country of Birth:		Sierra Leone
Languages:		English



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About Me

I am Musa Ansumana Soko by name, a Sierra Leonean< born on 24th September 1985 in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone.
I attended both secondary and high schools in Freetown.
I have been involved in the field of activism since my school days. I first became interested in the activism because of a competition I entered for that was organized by the UNAMSL Peace Keeping forces in Sierra Leone. Having won this competition, I was aired all over the country. In addition, very fortunately for me, an organization known as the PeaceLinks Education Organ decided to let me be as part of the organization since 2003.
I was captured by the rebels in 1998 during the August student protest by sierra Leonean students against the ugly situation. My condition was however turned to a topsy-turvy situation.
It was because of that that I even decided to infiltrate and delve more in the fields of activism and advocacy in my country, Sierra Leone. And I am still on the advocacy. But this time, I am strongly advocating for young people generally in the country the my initiative called the Youth Partnership for Peace and Development in Sierra Leone thereby serving as the Coordinator. This however was borne out of a conference that I attended in Liberia.
In the year 2006, I pioneered through the Coalition for Justice and Accountability to show communities a video of the trials of the former Liberian President Charles Taylor throughout communities in the western area.
Also I was part of the drafting of the national youth policy for Sierra Leone and the juvenile justice strategy workshop at the brutish council.

The Honorable Minister of Social Welfare, Gender and Children’s affairs as a you8th ambassador committed towards serving young peopled in the country, awarded me in 2005. The Children’s Forum Network through the Ministry organized this ceremony.

I have therefore worked for and volunteered fore several organizations in my country at both international and national levels.

In February 2007, I have as a Research Assistant with a the Australian National University through Dr. Augustine Park in the finding of children affected and those that took part in the war as well as their integration in to societies after the war. That is talking of traditional and the modern forms of integration.

I am presently teaching at the Educational Centre for the Blind and the Visually Impaired with the use of computers through a screen reading software called JAWS.
Like I said earlier, I have been part of so many organizations and initiatives in the country.
To name but a few, the Global Call to Action Against Poverty- Sierra Leone, National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, Democracy Sierra Leone, the Freedom of Information Coalition, Campaign for Just Mining.

I am currently an observer for the 2007 Presidential and Parliamentary Elections in Sierra Leone.
On the 19th April 2007, I headed a delegation to the G8 Embassies in Sierra Leone to submit the letter of the International Commemoration Day so that each and every G8 country will be reminded to fulfill their promises made to poor countries.

Not all about me could ever be said done, so I am this point ending by expressing my interested as a young and foresighted Sierra Leone. I really love learning new ideas as well as influencing those ideas into other people in my country

I am presently an election observer for the 2007 Presidential and Parliamentary elections in Sierra Leone and also a Media Representative to Democracy Sierra Leone through the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI).

I am still hoping to do more by the grace of GOD........

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