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THE STREET BOY!!
Book Description
Publication Date: August 4, 2011
Written in a simple, plain and beautiful language, The Street Boy narrates the story of Sierra Leone’s eleven-year civil war. Events of the war are beautifully narrated as the protagonist moved from one place to another and as he grew from childhood to adulthood. The book narrates life with the Revolutionary United Front rebels, how it was like living in a refugee camp in a foreign country and it also shows the social matrix of the Sierra Leonean society. This book educates you with all you need to know about Sierra Leone’s most recent history, from the inception of the war to its conclusion; all you need to know about the major players involved in the civil war; and the involvement of Sierra Leone’s neighbours in the war.

What customers' say about this book?/ Customers' Reviews
Good Book - Easily Approachable Content (By SenatorPerry)

For the past few years I have been looking for material dealing with Taylor's effect on Western Africa and particularly Sierra Leone. The author of the book takes you on the trip through the life and family of the "Street Boy" with time in Freetown and beyond.


The first chapter of the book was enough to draw you in. A family is torn from their way of life and thrust into a situation of insecurity and compromise. This is further impacted when the family must make decisions about their future and their unity. The Street Boy gives you a perspective of life on the streets of Freetown from a child's view and later as an adult. The civil war's impact on the people is experienced by the reader as well as the impact on class divisions without Sierra Leone.

Although the book is a great read, it is going to require some effort to familiarize yourself with terminology that is not known outside of Western Africa. Some terms are easily understood, but others required some level of research to fully understand. With this in mind, the book clearly identifies locations that are readily available on mapping websites. Individuals in the text are also easily found online where you can read more about their lives beyond the setting of the book.

The reason my rating is a four stars of five due to the ending of the book feeling rushed and less descriptive than the rest of the text. This creates a desired suspense, but after consuming the rest of the book I was willing to give the author the leeway to continue his mastery of settings and build a complete picture. This book is a great read and ranks very high amongst the limited crowd of literature available on this subject.For the past few years I have been looking for material dealing with Taylor's effect on Western Africa and particularly Sierra Leone. The author of the book takes you on the trip through the life and family of the "Street Boy" with time in Freetown and beyond.

The first chapter of the book was enough to draw you in. A family is torn from their way of life and thrust into a situation of insecurity and compromise. This is further impacted when the family must make decisions about their future and their unity. The Street Boy gives you a perspective of life on the streets of Freetown from a child's view and later as an adult. The civil war's impact on the people is experienced by the reader as well as the impact on class divisions without Sierra Leone.

Although the book is a great read, it is going to require some effort to familiarize yourself with terminology that is not known outside of Western Africa. Some terms are easily understood, but others required some level of research to fully understand. With this in mind, the book clearly identifies locations that are readily available on mapping websites. Individuals in the text are also easily found online where you can read more about their lives beyond the setting of the book.

The reason my rating is a four stars of five due to the ending of the book feeling rushed and less descriptive than the rest of the text. This creates a desired suspense, but after consuming the rest of the book I was willing to give the author the leeway to continue his mastery of settings and build a complete picture. This book is a great read and ranks very high amongst the limited crowd of literature available on this subject.

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NETWORK MOVEMENT FOR YOUTH AND CHILDREN’S 
WELFARE, SIERRA LEONE (NMYCW-SL)


Vision: We envisage the eradication of all forms of abuse against children and full empowerment of young people in decision making.
Mission: To enhance the needs and welfare of youth and children, equip, promote, protect, monitor human right issues, transparence and accountability (access to Information/expression) poverty eradication.
Key Objectives:
To bring together children and youth to take collective and practical action to enhance their human right, whereby we create the enable environment for youth and children development.
Engage in diverse sensitization and awareness raising activities such as face to face meeting, print and electronic Media.etc
To create reliable and efficient network of youth and children through out Sierra Leone.
Key recent—Activities of NMYCW-SL
Establish Youth and Children’s Resources Centre in the most Depressed Community in Sierra Leone (Kroo Bay Community)
PROMOTING THE FREE HEALTH CARE INITIATIVE FOR SUCKLING MOTHERS AND UNDER FIVE CHILDREN IN TWO SLUMS COMMUNITIES IN THE WESTERN AREA (KROOBAY & DWARZACK). 27th April 2010.
THE COMMEMORATION OF THE GLOBAL YOUTH SERVICE DAY-2011 (SIERRA LEONE) ORGANIZED BY NETWORK MOVEMENT FOR YOUTH AND CHILDREN’s WELFARE-SL IN COLLABORATION WITH YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION(YMCA-SL), FREETOWN CITY COUNCIL(FCC) and its Community PARTNERS in DWARZACK, MABELLA and KROOBAY.
ADVOCACY / LOBBYING ON MINING AGREEMENTS AND SITE VISIT TO MINING SITES.
NON VIOLENCE CAMPAIGN/ ELECTION SENSITIZATION.
COMMEMORATION OF WORLD DAY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CHILD ABUSE-19 NOVEMBER
Key Advocacy Area / Programmes:
Youth / Children’s development & organizing. 
Human Rights/ECOSOC Rights.
Economic Justice/Globalization. 
Environmental Protection / Land and Forest Conservation. 
Education ,Access to Information  & Accountability.

NETWORK MOVEMENT FOR YOUTH AND CHILDREN’S WELFARE, SIERRA LEONE (NMYCW-SL)

Address: 30 Grandcess Street, off Kroo Town Road. Freetown.
Phone:   + 232-76-717096/+232-77-536460
Email: nmycwsl@yahoo.com / nmycwsl@gmail.com
Website: http://orgs.tigweb.org/31347 or www.nmycwsl.webs.com
Contact Person:	  Hajie Bah
Position:	Co-ordinator


WHO ARE NMYCW-SL?
Network Movement for Youth and Children’s Welfare is a civil society organization that works towards youth and children’s welfare. NMYCW-SL was established in 2004 to develop and implement programmes that help alleviate the suffering of children and youths affected by deny of their Economic Social and Cultural Right (Human Rights) such as education, water and sanitation, food etc.
Networking with youth activists and human right defenders in Bo, Kenema, Kono, Makeni, Moyamba and Freetown.  For the past years the network has been active in advocating for youth and children in Sierra Leone. We have been working with positive organizations in Sierra Leone to meet our objectives, such as  Centre for Coordination of Youth Activists, Global call to action against poverty ,National Election Watch, Ministry of Youth & Sports, Democracy Sierra Leone, Young Men’s Christian Association etc. 
As a network we believe in working together on national issues, the network is an active  member to several coalition within and out  of Sierra Leone and working with local community base organizations such as Mabella Youth Organization,Kroobay Youth Advocacy Network,Dwazack Youth Advocacy Network, Waterloo Koya Youth District  Committee.etc.
WHO ARE NMYCW-SL?
Network Movement for Youth and Children’s Welfare is a civil society organization that works towards youth and children’s welfare. NMYCW-SL was established in 2004 to develop and implement programmes that help alleviate the suffering of children and youths affected by deny of their Economic Social and Cultural Right (Human Rights) such as education, water and sanitation, food etc.
Networking with youth activists and human right defenders in Bo, Kenema, Kono, Makeni, Moyamba and Freetown.  For the past years the network has been active in advocating for youth and children in Sierra Leone. We have been working with positive organizations in Sierra Leone to meet our objectives, such as  Centre for Coordination of Youth Activists, Global call to action against poverty ,National Election Watch, Ministry of Youth & Sports, Democracy Sierra Leone, Young Men’s Christian Association etc. 
As a network we believe in working together on national issues, the network is an active  member to several coalition within and out  of Sierra Leone and working with local community base organizations such as Mabella Youth Organization,Kroobay Youth Advocacy Network,Dwazack Youth Advocacy Network, Waterloo Koya Youth District  Committee.etc.

NMYCW-SL / PARTNERS.
Global Call to Action against Poverty – SL since 2006 NMYCWS-SL has been active members, also  staffs have served in different committee such as fund raising, mobilizing also represented GCAP-SL In and international conference with support from United Nation Millennium Campaign.
•	National Election Watch—NMYCW-SL is an active member in 2005 since then we have participated in most programme’s such as election sensitization and observation. 
•	Campaign for Just Mining-SL as a national advocacy group lobbying for just mining in Sierra Leone. For the past two – three year NMYCW-SL has been taking the lead in organizing events within the western area and northern region, as chairperson for the western area.
•	National Youth Volunteer Network- since the  commemoration of Global youth service day  has been organized by NMYCW-SL  an its partners, we agreed to take the lead to bring young people from different slums, CBO’s, Journalist.etc to setup a volunteers plate form.
•	Women World Summit Foundation- based in Geneva is a coalition working towards promoting women and say no to all forms of violence against children’s. Since 2007 NMYCW-SL have been organizing event to commemorate this important day 19 November every year.
•	The Ministry of Youth & Sports / National Youth Commission as a CSO working toward empowering young people we have played our part  in the formation of the Youth commission, the leadership of NMYCW-SL has been elected to serve as Public Relation Officer at the West Zone Youth Council. In several times used the mass media to advocate for the establishment of the national youth commission before it came to reality.







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