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Hannah Iyatunde Abigail Deen (of blessed memory) was a native from Sierra Leone, born in January 1938. As a young woman growing up, she was always determined to work in a hospital as a caregiver and when all the applications she made to acquire a scholarship failed, Hannah could still not bring herself to stop believing in her dreams. Years later,  she got married and started a beautiful family. She later joined an organisation in Freetown to help the aged, after her children were all grown up. She worked there for many years until she passed away in August 2019. However, her dedication to serving humanity did not die along with her. Lango Deen Sankoh, her eldest daughter founded an organization called Hannah Deen for Social Care or Hannah for Social Care in her memory. Today, Friday the 31st of January 2020, Lango made a donation of Le4,000,000 to Kadijatu Bah, a Social Work Student at Fourah Bay College in Freetown, as a way to help foster her education, so that she...

George Soros announced the launch of a new university network at the 2020 World Economic Forum Meeting in Davos. The Open Society University Network (OSUN) aims to prepare students around the world for global challenges. Mr. Soros is endowing the academic network he has created with one billion dollars ($1 billion) and asking other philanthropists to contribute.  Over the past 30 years, Soros has given more than $32 billion to education and social justice causes.  “We are looking for farsighted partner institutions who feel a responsibility for the future of our civilization, people who are inspired by the goals of OSUN and want to participate in its realization,”  he said in a statement.  When OSUN begins this year, it will stretch from Bangladesh and Central Asia to the Palestinian territories, from South Africa to Colombia, and from leading universities and research institutes in Europe and the United States to  Syrian and Somali refugee camps. ...

In 2008, Angélique Kidjo visited a UNICEF-supported girls’ education project in Sierra Leone. The singer and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador spoke to a group of teenage girls in a village in Bombali District, northern Sierra Leone. The girls had dropped out of school due to problems related to child marriage and exploitation. "Your country needs doctors, nurses, teachers, and engineers to take it forward,” Kidjo said at the event covered by Issa Davies . “And if I am here today, it is because I was determined to be educated.” A year before Angélique visited Sierra Leone, the singer-songwriter and activist was called "Africa's premier diva" by TIME magazine. In 2019, the BBC dubbed Angelique Kidjo “Queen Of African Music” after a performance at the Royal Albert Hall. It doesn't get any bigger than that. That's why in 2020, she has been billed as the "Daughter of Independence"  to celebrate the 60th independence anniversary of her native Benin and...