{"id":47586,"date":"2012-09-17T20:02:54","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T20:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=47586"},"modified":"2012-09-17T20:02:54","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T20:02:54","slug":"with-laurels-from-usarapture-kids-to-return-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=47586","title":{"rendered":"With Laurels from USA\u2026Rapture Kids to Return Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Rapture Kids Sierra Leone, the country\u2019s most celebrated\u00a0childrens group, are set to return home next week after bagging several awards during their tour of the United States of America.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The group was among other Sierra Leonean groups and individuals awarded by Save Sierra Leone Foundation, in Maryland, USA.\u00a0 The children are also prepared to continue their education and to campaign for peaceful elections, back home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The\u00a0Raptue Kids\u00a0received one of the top 100 Humanitarian Hall of Fame 2012 awards in the United States on August 31<sup>st<\/sup> and according to the citation, they were recognized for their contribution towards the Nation\u2019s 50<sup>th<\/sup> Golden Jubilee celebrations and for their message of patriotism, peace, and development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In a telephone conversation with this press from Maryland, the Head of the group said, Rapture Kids is a faith based children&#8217;s organization that uses music to preach about the love of good for mankind and everything that affects humanity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The group became very popular after their hit song \u2018Jubilee\u2019 in Sierra Leone rocked the airwaves and was religiously listened in every nook and cranny of the country and beyond. The song became very popular when its video clip was officially made the anthem of the Golden Jubilee at the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation Television (SLBC).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Prior to the award ceremony, the group which left the shores of Sierra Leone in mid August visited several states in the\u00a0USA performing popular songs from their main album titled \u2018Attitudinal Change\u2019 a song which moved the audience who could not help the tears as their message touched on the decade long war in Sierra Leone and at the same time advocatign for a peaceful and non-violent November 2012 elections. The election song and gospel track were performed during the award ceremony in Maryland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Several media houses such as the Voice of America, Gospel Drum, and Front Page Studio, among others, interviewed the group and on Sunday 2<sup>nd<\/sup> September an hour was dedicated\u00a0Rapture Kids on the state TV in Maryland, USA. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rapture Kids Sierra Leone, the country\u2019s most celebrated\u00a0childrens group, are set to return home next week after bagging several awards during their tour of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":34256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[745,1],"tags":[13419],"class_list":["post-47586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-and-entertainment","category-uncategorized","tag-rapture-kids-sierra-leone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47586","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\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47586\/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=47586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}