Community Notices

[proj...@kono.org.uk]

Please publish your community notices here. Births, deaths, marriages,
celebrations, events, vacancies, projects, chiefdom events, etc.

[proj...@kono.org.uk]

The Kono Community EU said...
The Kono Community UK and Ireland sends its sympathies to the
relatives and communities of Paramount Chief Torto of Nimiyama
Chiefdom, who died in Kono on the 13th. May his soul rest in peace.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200804240761.html

First posted on the Kono Community Blog on 26 April 2008 22:14

[proj...@kono.org.uk]

The Kono Community EU said...

The Catholic ceremony to ordain Kono priest Father Charles as
Archbishop of Freetown will take place on the 14th of May at the
Stadium in Freetown.

The Kono Family Dinner organised by the Kono community in Sierra Leone
to celebrate this ordination, which is planned for 500 people, is
scheduled to take place on the 16th of May at the St. Anthony Hall,
Freetown. Donations for this event would be welcome.

First posted on the Kono Community Blog on 27 April 2008 12:12

[proj...@kono.org.uk]

Aiah Sodengbe and Christiana requests with pleasure the company of all
Konos to join them in celebrating their ENGAGEMENT PARTY.
Date: Saturday 28th June 2008.
Time : 5pm till late.
Venue: 17a Kenilworth Gardens, Seven Kings, Ilford, Essex IG3 8DU.
Nearest train station: Seven Kings.
Buses: 150 & 128.
Major roads; A406, A118
To view a map, click the following link or copy it to your browser
address bar and press 'enter';
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=545785&y=186933&z=0&sv=ig3%2b8du&st=2&pc=ig3%2b8du&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf"
target="_blank
To plan your journey click the following link or copy it to your
browser address bar and press 'enter';
http://journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk/user/XSLT_TRIP_REQUEST2?language=en&execInst=&sessionID=0&ptOptionsActive=-1&place_destination=London&name_destination=ig3
8du&type_destination=locator target="_blank"

Please RSVP on: 0790 494 2268

[Aiah Bondowa Tondoneh]

Aiah

on Saturday, 28th June, is there going any poyoh/Bamboo wine for Pormasu?

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> Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 06:22:22 -0700
> Subject: {Kono Community} Re: Community Notices
> From: proj...@kono.org.uk
> To: kono-co...@googlegroups.com

[proj...@kono.org.uk]

From: Aiah Sodengbe <asod...@hotmail.com>
Subject: ENGAGEMENT PARTY INVITATION UPDATE : 28/06/2008.
To: proj...@kono.org.uk, sah...@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tuesday, 3 June, 2008, 3:31 PM

On the request of Pormasu Aiah Bondowa Tondoneh, i wish to confirm
that Poyoh (Imported), Omoleh, and Sasman would be available on
request. Ongoing efforts are still in progress to secure the delivery
of Poyoh (GOD TO MAN) and Bamboo wine from Njaiama Nimikor.


Aiah Sodengbe.

[proj...@kono.org.uk]

Hello All

The next general meeting of the Kono Community organisation (Postponed
from 27th May and 1st June) will be held on: 8th June 2008 at 4pm-7pm,
PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE: The Tower Building, Kilburn Square,
Victoria Road, Kilburn London NW6 6PT

To see map; click or copy the following link into your browser and
press enter:
http://www.multimap.com/maps/?hloc=gb|nw6%206pt#map=51.53891,-0.19585|18|4&loc=gb:51.53891:-0.19585:16|nw6%206pt|nw6%206pt

For travel details; click or copy the following link into your browser
and press enter:
http://journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk/user/XSLT_TRIP_REQUEST2?language=en&sessionID=JP06_4258778503&requestID=1&tripSelector1=1&itdLPxx_view=detail&tripSelection=on&command=nop&calculateDistance=1#jpmap_1

Agenda
1 Prayers
2 Chairs opening remarks
3 Code of Conduct
4 Minutes corrections and matters arising
5 Recent funerals
6 Status report on executive action
7 membership drive and youth mobilisation
8 AOB

In addition to the above, the committee agreed the following agenda
items, which for some reason have been ommitted from the mail shot;
these were; the introduction of subcommittees, the development of
partnerships and projects, and the legal entity the organisation will
take (ie either charity or friendly society).

All contact details can be found at the bottom of our home page at
www.kono.org.uk

Dont forget to confirm your membership of the online discussion group
and add your development-related comments. Did you know that you can
easily post a comment by email? Just send your comment or discussion
to kono-co...@googlegroups.com.

Sahr Fasuluku
proj...@kono.org.uk

[proj...@kono.org.uk]

We have received reports from Freetown that on 7th June the Bible
Society launched the Kono translation of the New Testament at the
Miyatta Conference Centre.

We would appreciate any confirmation of this. I'm sure our members
will all want a copy.

Keeping our language alive is one of our priorities and a viable
project for Europe, US and Sierra Leone. Have faith; Welsh was all but
extinct and has now enjoyed a resurgence in Wales, with TV and radio
programmes, literature, newspapers magazines, streetsigns, in fact I
believe it is a legal requirement there for everything to be
translated into English and Welsh. If they can we can. Anyone
interested in starting a language-related project for adults, youths
and/or children, please contact proj...@kono.org.uk for assistance.
We can help.

On May 4, 6:19 pm, proje...@kono.org.uk wrote:

[proj...@kono.org.uk]

First, I must say thanks to all the Konos in the UK for efforts made
to unite and engage in progressive and positive ways and means for
developments of Kono, especially Sandoh Chiefdom which had been
lagged behind for some forty or fifty years ago. I have been away from
Sierra Leone for so long due to my near "under house arrest" during
the SLPP regime way back in the sixties. It's a long story which
cannot be explained now.

My real original name is Aiah Wainyima Fasuluku Sankoh. Those who
new me then will recognize or remember me in those days. I was in the
Army with my late cousin Tamba Robert Ansumana from Wordu.
After a few years stint in the SLA I worked for the Ministry Of
Finance until the first general election in 1967 when SLPP refused to
hand over power to the APC. Being on neutral ground at that time
caused some friction with my late boss Mr. S.B. Daramy who was
detained. At that time I had to leave Sierra Leone.

I retired from North Carolina Agriculture and Technical State
University along with Mr. Moses Musa Kamara who recently passed away
on Sunday, June 15, 2008. Funeral will take place at Perry Brown's
Funeral Home,909 East Market Street Greensboro North Carolina. Viewing
at 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. and final life services from 11:00 a.m.
until interment at Lake view Memorial Park in Greensboro. Mr. Kamara
grew up in Jaiama Nimikoro where he started his teaching career in the
1950's. Those who new him should contact his wife at
barbar...@yahoo.com for condolence.

Glenn A. Sankoh

On May 4, 11:19 pm, proje...@kono.org.uk wrote:

[proj...@kono.org.uk]

Mr. Moses Musa Kamara recently passed away on Sunday, June 15, 2008.

Funeral will take place at Perry Brown's Funeral Home,909 East Market
Street Greensboro North Carolina. Viewing at 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
and final life services from 11:00 a.m. until interment at Lake view
Memorial Park in Greensboro. Mr. Kamara grew up in Jaiama Nimikoro
where he started his teaching career in the 1950's. Those who new him
should contact his wife at barbar...@yahoo.com for condolence.

On May 4, 11:19 pm, proje...@kono.org.uk wrote:

[Kono Community]

Sickle Cell Carers Awareness Network

Summer Fundraiging Barbeque

Click on the link below for details or copy and paste it into your
browser

http://www.sccan.org.uk/sccanBBQ_set.pdf

Lets raise funds for sufferers in Sierra Leone

• Sickle cell anaemia is an inherited blood disorder; it cannot be
caught • There are 12 million estimated sufferers in Africa • When
left unmanaged 80% of child sufferers die before their fifth year in
rural areas • Managed sickle cell sufferers can lead long active
lives

The wellbeing and welfare of sickle cell patients in Sierra Leone is
SCCAN’s primary concern. Therefore we aim to offer a variety of
services to meet carers', individual, family and community needs to
enable and empower them to care more effectively. Carers have been
doing a significant job in the midst of limitations, despite their
lack of adequate knowledge of Sickle Cell Anaemia (SCA). SCCAN
services include education, counselling, referrals to health care and
social services agencies, and emergency financial assistance. We also
wish to initiate a nationwide screening programme and provide valuable
research into this terribly neglected debilitating disease.

The SCCAN counselling and education programme is intended to help keep
patients and their families informed about Sickle Cell Disease and to
respond to the diverse questions and concerns that surface during
counselling sessions e.g. pain management, life expectancy and quality
of life, unemployment, inability to work and poverty, prejudice,
intermarriage, causes and management of SCA, crisis management,
transportation needs during crisis, medication and problems with
getting drugs. Over the past year in Sierra Leone 20 people have
received or accessed our services.

Come and help us raise funds for sufferers in Sierra Leone

[Kono Community]

Notice supplied by Peter Andersen, Sierra Leone Web, Freetown:

Funeral services for the late Dr. Sahr James Tongu will take place on
Sunday, 27 July 2008 at the Koidu Joint Parish, United Methodist
Church, in Koidu. Dr. Tongu died in Freetown on 10 July 2008. He was
70 years old. Interment will be at Sukudu, Soa Chiefdom.

The body was taken to Koidu today

Peter C. Andersen

Sierra Leone Web

http://www.sierra-leone.org

Freetown, Sierra Leone

[Sam Jonjo]

                          Re: The Late Dr Sahr James Tongu
                          _____________________________
 
Dr Tongu epitomised for me someone who was not only a highly enlightened Kono man but also a very patriotic Sierra Leonean and true lover of all that is Kono.
 
I was working as 'Estate Officer' in the Administrator and Registrar-General's Department of the Justice Ministry of Sierra Leone when Dr Tongu returned to Sierra Leone from the United states with a lot of computers and other educational equipment wishing to set up an education-to-employment kind of institution for youths in Kono District in addition to other rural development schemes. I helped him set up and register his company after which he left for Kono. Unfortunately I understand that during the rebel incursion and atrocities in Kono all of his equipment got either stolen or burnt down. What a loss!
 
Now that GOD has called him for higher duty, I think it behoves of every Kono man or woman to pray for this noble son of the soil. May his soul and the souls of all our faithful departed rest and abide in perfect peace in GOD Almighty.
 
In deep reflection on matters of life and death, I sometimes settle for the reasoning of children. In a recent publication of a book titled 'Children's letters to GOD' a ten-year old was lamenting in his letter why it is that if we are assured by GOD that people do live again in Him after they die, why can't the good Lord just spare these ones that we already have rather than have them die continually and have them replaced by newborns? By this reasoning maybe the good Lord could have spared our brother Dr Tongu.
 
Deepest sympathy to every Kono man / woman.
 
Yours sincerely,
 
Samuel Jonjo 

> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:01:11 -0700

> Subject: {Kono Community} Re: Community Notices
> From: proj...@kono.org.uk
> To: kono-co...@googlegroups.com
>
>

[David S. Morsay]

SAM,TtHANKS VERY MUCH FOR YOUR THOUGHTS AND CONCERN WITH REGARDS TO THE DEATH OF OUR BROTHER AND FRIEND, DR. SAHR TONGU. MAY HIS SOUL REST IN  PEACE, AMEN. IT'S A GREAT LOSS TO KONO AND ALL. TO THE WIFE AND CHILDREN, I SAY PLEASE TAKE IT AS IT COMES, WE SHALL MEET ONE DAY. REGARDS, DAVID.

[Kono Community]

Freetown August 2008

Tragedy in Freetown, Sierra Leone

Last week there was a tragedy when two Kono children drowned in
Aberdeen, near the Cape Lighthouse. The women were washing clothes
there due to an interruption in water supply from Guma. Reports
indicate that a nine-year old boy went swimming and got in trouble.
His 14-year old sister was the first to see him and went to his
rescue. Both of the children drowned.

Bereaved is Mani Koroma.

If you have any further information regarding the incident please let
us know.

Reported by Peter Andersen,

Sierra Leone Web
http://www.sierra-leone.org
Freetown, Sierra Leone

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On Jul 24, 6:05 pm, Kono Community <proje...@kono.org.uk> wrote:

[Kono Community]

Re: PATRON INVITATION TO OUR FUNDRAISING BARBEQUE at 2pm on SATURDAY
23rd AUGUST 2008, Woodside House, 294 Wood Green High Road, London N22
8YX

Dear Colleague

SCCAN is a programme set up in the UK and in Sierra Leone to help
extend lives and improve quality of life for sickle cell anaemia
sufferers in Sierra Leone.

This year we have expanded our operations and organisational capacity
and we need your help. We are inviting you to join our list of
patrons. Our patrons consist of people such as you who are either not-
for-profit individuals and organisations, medical professionals or
business professionals, and who can assist us in directing,
organising, and implementing the large programme that we must
undertake soon. Assistance can be financial or in-kind, depending on
what you can offer.

With the generous support of organisations and people like you, we can
help many of these individuals, their carers and communities, not only
to identify and diagnose sufferers and help them meet their essential
daily medication, management and healthcare needs, but to work toward
a brighter future with programmes including education, counselling,
support, lobbying, partnerships, campaigns and providing valuable
research in Sierra Leone into this terribly neglected debilitating
disease.

At our barbeque on the 23rd of August you will be able to gain more
information about sickle cell anaemia, SCCAN and our activities in
Sierra Leone, as well as network with others interested in this area.
We will have a fundraising raffle and auction and there will be a
dance performance, as well as the opportunity to purchase fundraising
merchandising. Of course, great food and a relaxing atmosphere go
without saying.

Please join us at our fundraising barbeque or, if you are unable to
attend, send us your donations, pledges and/or offers of help in kind.
Sickle cell anaemia suffers in Sierra Leone and their carers need you.

S E Nyandemo
CEO
SCCAN


Barbeque flyer: http://www.sccan.org.uk/sccanBBQ_set.pdf
SCCAN Brochure: http://www.sccan.org.uk/Sccan_brochure_new.pdf
SCCAN Introductory letter: http://www.sccan.org.uk/SCCAN%20-%20introductory%20letter.pdf
Map:
http://www.multimap.com/maps/?qs=N22%208YX&countryCode=GB&loc=[object%20Object]&mapData=&zoomFactor=15&lat=51.60532&lon=-0.11074&qs_2=N22%208YX&countryCode_2=GB&lat_2=51.60532&lon_2=-0.11074&displayName_2=N22%208YX#map=51.60532,-0.11074|15|4&loc=GB:51.60367:-0.11074:16|N22%208YX|N22%208YX

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Kono Community wrote:

> Sickle Cell Carers Awareness Network
>

> Summer Fundraising Barbeque

[Johnny Sahr]

that  you you very much for your coperation --- On Wed, 7/30/08, David S. Morsay <davids...@yahoo.com> wrote: