{"id":39295,"date":"2012-04-24T02:16:48","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T02:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=39295"},"modified":"2012-04-24T02:16:48","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T02:16:48","slug":"mrs-musu-stevens-addresses-african-and-american-womens-assoc-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=39295","title":{"rendered":"Mrs Musu Stevens addresses African American Women\u2019s Assoc meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Washington, DC, Saturday 22<sup>nd<\/sup> April, 2012:<\/strong> In her interaction with members of the African American Women&#8217;s Association (AAWA) at the Embassy of Sierra Leone in Washington, DC. yesterday afternoon, the wife of the Ambassador, Mrs. Musu Hafsatu Stevens lauded the efforts of Sierra Leone\u2019s First Lady for her untiring support in advancing the cause of women and children.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI should here make mention of the commendable initiatives of the First Lady of Sierra Leone Mrs. Sia Koroma towards improving maternal health. She has been making positive contributions in increasing access to healthcare facilities in rural communities through her \u201cWomen\u2019s Initiative for Safer Health \u2013 WISH.\u201d This programme supports women\u2019s health and, in addition to completing the renovation of a hospital, has been distributing baby packs and supplementary food-packs to new mothers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Continuing with her remarks in her capacity as Guest Speaker, Mrs. Stevens stressed that even though Sierra Leonean women are faced with several challenges, the new gender-positive policies, coupled with the skills-training and the building of women\u2019s capacities in general, make the future\u00a0 for Sierra Leonean women a brighter prospect.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_39298\" style=\"width: 458px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Mrs.-Musu-Hafsatu-Stevens-Fourth-from-right-posing-with-some-AAWA-women-just-after-the-meeting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39298\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39298\" title=\"Mrs. Musu Hafsatu Stevens (Fourth from right) posing with some AAWA women just after the meeting\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Mrs.-Musu-Hafsatu-Stevens-Fourth-from-right-posing-with-some-AAWA-women-just-after-the-meeting.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-39298\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mrs. Musu Hafsatu Stevens (Fourth from right) posing with some AAWA women just after the meeting<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In conclusion, Mrs. Stevens thanked the AAWA members for the support they have been giving to the Freetown Cheshire Home and School for children disabled with polio, saying that their work \u201cis making a difference in the lives of those physically challenged children\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The theme of the meeting was \u201cOur Fundraising Charity Project: The Freetown Cheshire Home in Sierra Leone for the Physically Challenged Children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An exchange of ideas followed Mrs. Stevens\u2019 remarks, which was moderated by the current AWAA President Mrs. Octavia Johnson, herself a citizen of Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the meeting were a past president of AAWA, other executive members, and the Correspondence Secretary Mrs. Elizabeth Banks, who gave the vote of thanks.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC, Saturday 22nd April, 2012: In her interaction with members of the African American Women&#8217;s Association (AAWA) at the Embassy of Sierra Leone in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[751,1],"tags":[11990,6306,11991],"class_list":["post-39295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-news","category-uncategorized","tag-african-american-womens-association","tag-first-lady-sia-koroma","tag-musu-hafsatu-stevens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}