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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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:)
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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.
You are doing admirable work. As a public health worker, and someone who attended FBC as a U.S. student many years ago, I am very concerned about the access to clean drinking water for the people of Kroo Bay.
Thanks for the thought.
In Kroobay we have tap water, although it is not enough to supply all the families living here. That is why we need people to come and help us. Save the Children is doing well, they have taught us about health and how to promote hygiene.
I have just started to pay my 3 pounds, i think you do fantastic work, God bless you all.
Thanks very much Mrs Heaps. The three pounds means so much to the children and women in Kroobay.
I wish you all the best with your very honourable work.
Thanks Zoe.
Well done Samuel, you are doing a great job, keep it up.
Thanks Letitia.
