Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Developer, firm give time and funds to aid villages in Africa - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:

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These efforts are part of the Sierra LeonedPlymouth Partnership, founded by the real estate which has brought about $100,00p of aid into three Sierra Leones villages every year since 2006. But Hall isn’tr interested in merely donating funds to a developing He spends two weeks in Sierr a Leone each year planning how the monety willbe used, looking aheadc to the next phase of effortws and forming long-lasting partnerships. “You can’t just builcd a water well and Hall said. “It’s abou creating a model for using these funds that will make thevillagees self-sustaining.
” Hall’s history with Sierraq Leone began in 1987, when he spent two years volunteering with the in the village of Shortly after Hall returned to the Unitex States, the village was destroyed during a decade-lonyg civil war that displaced 2 millionh people. While order has been slowly restored in the West Africah nation since the war endedin 2002, a returh trip for Hall in 2004 showed him that Jokibh and surrounding villages were still lacking the basifc assistance they needed to get back on their

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