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cdpeace is Reviving Local Traditional Music with Youths

By Mary Hawa Turay | Published: March 11, 2011
Money was raised by Logan MacGillivray in Canada for cdpeace to buy local traditionally made musical instruments for children to use at the Listen to the Children Resource Center which is under construction at the cdpeace headquarter, Mayagba, Sierra Leone.  When the construction of the centre is completed early this summer, cdpeace is going to setup [...]
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cdpeace Partner, Logan MacGillivray: Received the Red Cross 2010 Young Humanitarian Award

By Mary Hawa Turay | Published: November 12, 2010
“Logan has done it, and he will do it again” Well, Logan has done it again. cdpeace joins to sing with the children of Maso Community School that composed this song for young Logan MacGillivray in 2008 who was 10 years old when he shipped his first 40 ft. container from Canada to Sierra Leone. [...]
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cdpeace Interns from Queens University

By Mary Hawa Turay | Published: April 21, 2010
INTRODUCING JENIKA ADOLPH AND TANYA CEROVIC Jenika Adolph and Tanya Cerovic are Teacher Candidates from the Faculty of Education, Queen’s University, Canada. They were in Sierra Leone for three weeks in March/April 2010. While in Sierra Leone, they worked with cdpeace communities, schools, teachers and students. They also helped to raise funds for our unpaid [...]
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Sherry Prenevost: Namasa Ansar (Mother of the Chiefdom)

By Mary Hawa Turay | Published: March 26, 2010
Sherry Prenovost is a cdpeace Volunteer in Canada. She initiated Jill’s Kids Foundation in memory of her dear friend, Jill who was very interested in supporting the work of cdpeace in Sierra Leone but passed away in 2009. To honour her wishes, Jill’s family and friends decided to raise funds during Jill’s funeral for the [...]
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Dr. William J. Egnatoff: cdpeace Volunteer and Partner (Queen’s University)

By Mary Hawa Turay | Published: March 16, 2010
INTRODUCING DR. WILLIAM EGNATOFF Dr. William J. Egnatoff is an Associate Professor, Computers in Education, Faculty of Education, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. Bill works both as a cdpeace volunteer and has also partnered cdpeace with the Faculty of Education at Queen’s University, Canada. He is working with cdpeace on school networking between cdpeace pilot schools [...]
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