My Name is Elizabeth Brewah and I am
a community activist helping women and young girls, in my community
called the Malama community. The Malama community is along Regents Road Lumley
in Freetown. It is found at the tail end of a long road. It is a small
community linking up different communities like
Ø Kamayama Community
Ø Kainingo Community
Ø Hill Station Extension
Ø Engine Community
Ø Juba Hill Extension
From my community and my house to be
precise, you will see the Kabbasa Lodge building, the Choitram hospital and
many big government buildings. My community is known to be one of the places that
people experience the most rain during the raising season in Western Freetown.
I come from a small family. My mum is a
teacher and has taught for over 15 years. No doubt, her career has inspired me
to take up the challenge of educating and empowering young girls in my
community.
I am the last of three girls of
which my elder sister is Yeatie Brewah. My second sister is Rachel
Kemah Brewah. I was born on the 16th June, 1987.
I found time to volunteer with
B-Gifted whilst looking to impact others and also in search of a job. I have
dreams of pursuing nursing or intending to be a lawyer someday.
At present, I am also volunteering
for LIFE Sierra Leone, Kick Ebola
Sierra Leone and B-Gifted , where I aim to gain experience, be exposed and
create a change mostly among women and girls in my generation.
In my years in education and
service, I was a teacher at the SOS Harmann Geirmer International School, SOS
Village Beach Road Lumley. The Institution was founded by a Gernab Harmann
Geirmer who had a dream of feeding, clothing and educating orphans. This vision
started in the early 60s, and it is being spread in over 16 countries. It has
it National Head Quarters here in Sierra Leone along beach Road and its being
headed by a National Director and the School Principal.
I have served as their chair-lady
for about two years now, co-coordinating meetings, outing and different kinds
of individual and group celebrations within the country with our individual
contributions. I have also promoted individual psychological counseling,
problem solving among us.
I am presently involved with a set
of young people from different works of life with the aim of sharing ideas
together, happy moment and sad moments together. They are all engaged in
different works of life. Amongst the group of young people are a video
journalist, a gospel artist, a lawyer, a business man.
I hope young girls and women in our society especially my community can wake up from their sleeps and slumbers
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ReplyDeleteI greet you in the name of peace, love and humanity.
Its being a while since I last send posted, life for girls in Sierra Leone has being from the frying pan to the fire, that is from marginalisation to rape, from early marriage to Ebola pregnant girls.
What can we do? How can we help these girls to have a better and sustainable life? What difference can we make in their lives?
The ball is in our court..............take the bull by the horn and make a change now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My story, from a teacher to a HEAD OF SCHOOLS
ReplyDeleteWhen i left the SOS Hermann Germiner School i almost gave up in looking for a job in wanting to make a move in life but fortunately i saw an advert on facebook from We Yone Child Foundation, looking for a Head of Schools which i was fortunate to get. Here i am today not just working with schools, but also teachers, pupils and parents from different homes, different cultures, different backgrounds. It has being a wonderful experience!!!
My work started with the schools effectively in August, 2015. Awesome experience!!!We Yone Child Foundation is having two schools and presently working on building the other school at Upper George Brook, Temple of Faith- George Brook School had a number of up to 450 kids and Kroo Bay which was running as a lesson from 2:00-5:00PM had 250 kids ranging from classes 1-6. The children from both schools were very welcoming and as a first time direct worker with kids, i found it very interesting as we had our play times, school times and Christmas party which was a blast!!!! Whooooooooo oooooo it was really a blast.
Finally in 2016, TRAINING AND REAL SCHOOL YEAR!!!!
2016 January started with a training and the launching of the Kroo Bay formal school.
First time ever to host, organize and facilitate a training for my teachers, our teachers..... 14 of them in training on:
Classroom Management
Classroom rules and regulations
Guidance and Counseling
and many other topics relating to school and classroom management.
Since our schools reopened on the 8th,there have being a lot success story all boiling up to HEAD OF SCHOOLS carrying the big cap......9 taking the National Primary School Examination, over all passes from our first test and now we are ready for our second test.
Ladies don't sit back and cry yourself down. Take the bull by the horn, this year is our year....WOMEN HOLD YOUR HEADS UP HIGH AND CREATE A CHANGE IN YOUR COMMUNITY, SOCIETY AND NATION AS A WHOLE. This is just me.....what about you???? Help other!!!!
This true story of Elizabeth Brewah, a young lady who climbed the ladder of progress through hard work is one that speaks volumes of young women in Sierra Leone who are really make a difference. As we reflect on the Internatioal women's day, we celebrate the untold stories of rising young women who are changing their own lives and those of others through education, peace, human rights, activism and strength of courage.
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