Area Development Committee
About us
Samuel, Vice Chair of the Area Development Committee
I'm Samuel and I'm the Vice Chair of the Area Development Committee (ADC). I’ve been working with the ADC since we started in 1990.
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What we do
The committee looks after the needs and welfare of the community and brings development and education into Kroo Bay. We need to help the children, they are our future. We want Kroo Bay to look like a paradise, not the slum it is!
We co-ordinate activities with non governmental organisations (NGOs). The ADC has been tirelessly working for development in Kroo Bay with the government and NGOs since its inception.
What we're up against
In the rainy season you can’t sleep a whole night, you’ve got to keep getting up to wash away the water. In the rainy season the water comes as high as four feet. The work that was done during the rains last year - the damming of the river and teaching volunteers to treat diarrhoea - had a big impact.
What we think about Save the Children
I advocate for the poor and vulnerable. I try to motivate the others and show the young people the role they can play.
Save the Children only started last year, but already their protection work with the children is very popular. The impact has been great. The children’s club and the child welfare committee are very ambitious. They have made more children serious about their education and everyone wants to join the club.
For you people from Save the Children to come and put us on this website is very exciting, because other people will see how we live.
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Post a message
Post a message here and we'll pass it on. Responses will be posted on individual profile pages as soon as possible. Keep coming back to check!
Posted messages
These are some of the messages posted to The Area
Development Committee. We'll ask them if they'd like to
respond as soon as possible.
Infrastructure to Kroo Bay
Hello
Is there some organisation from govermant or NGOs who work to provide electricity, sanitation to Kroo Bay? Do You have some plans about this topic? Any idea how You can do it? May be I can visit Kroo Bay to see what can be done to make better progress. I come to country in Juni/July to spend 3 weeks. I m very interest to get better infrastructure and present some idea - project maybe with support from others organisations.
Hi Thomas,
We thinkg it\'s great you want to help. We know Kroo Bay has many needs and have been working there for the past years by renovating the clinic, training volunteers and banking the river. We appreciate your kind offer to help but the best way to do this is to donate through our website and to continue visiting for updates.
School to school contact
Hi
I am the librarian at a Secondary school (pupils age 11 - 18) in Doncaster, England, and have taken great interest in the work that you do to help these unfortunate children. The pupils at our school would like to become involved by writing to children and developing an on-going scheme to raise money to help you. The idea is that they become 'pen-pals' to your children and write to them on a regular basis to try to give them a sense of responsability and your children hope that there are other children who wish to give. Is the only contact made via the website where you post a message? Or could we send letters, cards and photographs for them to see? what do they need most? Do they need clothing or just money to buy food etc.? We want to become involved and would appreciate any feedback that you can give to us as we would like to get something set up to start on our return to school after the summer holidays, and we have 4 weeks left to get our ideas together.
Hi Ann,
Thank you for your interest in helping us at Kroo Bay. Through this website we\'ve had other schools interested in being involved with Kroo Bay but unfortunately we don\'t have the capacity to facilitate that. If your school wants to help, the best way to do that is to donate through our Kroo Bay website and continue checking for updates on the work Save the Children is doing.
Kroo Bay
Oh My God!
It's so cool that you guys are actually doing this for these unfortunate children! Nice to hear that they'll be getting education and other everday life things that we take for granted! I'm waiting to hear more. And by the way, the iformation on this site is AMAZING and will sound very good in my geo essay.
Help for Kroo Bay
HI. Samuel,
I have been keeping up with all of the good work that ADC is during and now we want to help you complete the Medical Clinic and help to supply medical equipment and supplies. Also we want to supply to the family of Kroo Bay some Anti Malaria Bet Nets. Please advise
I will be in Freetown the last week of December and at that time would like to sit down with you and the ADC committee to discus in detail how best we can of service to Kroo Bay.
Keep up the good work
James Washington, Chairman
Friends of Africa
Dear James,
Thank you for posting your comment and for you interest in helping others. Yes, access to health is important if we want to reach our goal of reducing child mortality. We\'re renovating Kroo Bay\'s clinic as part of our health project in Kroo Bay and this why we need support from people like you to carry out this work. The best way is to donate via the website. As well as working in Kroo Bay we are also working across five other slums in Freetown where similar health issues exist.
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Best wishes,
The Kroo Bay Team
Hats for kids
Hello, I've been reading up on your website and definitelly want to help. I was reading on your latest news and saw that hats are higly needed to help with children's health. I want to send you a large box of hats from the US and would love it if it went directly to your facility. My church will be more than happy to help. Please email me back with information of how this can happen. Thank you!
Dear Rania,
We think it\'s wonderful that you want to help.
Knitting hats can make a difference in saving babies\' lives.
So far we\'ve received almost 300,000 hats coming from thousands of supporters throughout the UK. Fifty thousand of these will be distributed through the clinics we work in Sierra Leone, including Kroo Bay. At this stage our health team in Sierra Leone have enough hats but we are very grateful for your kind offer.
Thank you for joining us in helping save children\'s lives and don\'t forget to fill in your details so that we can keep you up to date with Kroo Bay\'s latest news.
Kind Regards,
The Kroo Bay Team
Sustainable development
Fantastic to hear and stage the great steps you are making to ensure children are protected. Giving young people the inspiration for education can and really will change their lives. I am sure their must be challenging moments but keep up your optimistic approach:)
Congratulation.
Congratulation in all what made you. The actions humanitarian, don't pass one way or another without reward, the God will help you and would have you of the consequent supports to help the humanity and especially the children as vulnerable people.
Thanks. We need our community to improve, thats why we are all involved. We are also lucky to have Save the Children working with us.
I'm moved by the stories & photos. thanks guys for coming together to alliviate the problems in Kroo Bay. I pray that the Govt. will hear you one day.
Braima,
The people of Kroobay are united in this, we are brothers and sisters. The government is trying its best and it is working with Save the Children to bring lasting changes in our community. I believe we will surely make it.
Well done. Keep up the good work.
Thanks.
Hi Samuel. It's great to see that you have set up a committee to develop your community. The first thing I noticed when I looked at the photo of the committee of nine was that there were no women. How can that be? How do people get on the committee - are they elected?
Thanks for the question on women involvement.
It is rather unfortunate that during the photo session, none of the women were around at that time - they were busy selling. But we do have women in the committee. There are 6 in total and one of them is the vice chair.
