Announcing the Africa's Future in African Hand's Tour
The All African People’s Development and Empowerment Project (AAPDEP) is honored to announce the world-wide tour of Nurse Mary Koroma, midwife and Director of AAPDEP in Sierra Leone. AAPDEP invites those with a passion for self-determination and community led development to bring the Africa’s Future in African Hands (AFIAH) tour to your city this spring.
The AFIAH tour focuses on the issue of infant and maternal health in Sierra Leone, Africa and the African Diaspora and will showcase the power of African people working together to develop African communities.
Nurse Mary will be travelling to the US from Sierra Leone, which has the world’s highest ratio of maternal mortality with 1 in 8 women at risk of dying during childbirth and one of the highest global rates of infant mortality with 123 of every 1000 babies not surviving to the age of one. However according to the AFIAH tour organizers, “despite the great barriers to health care faced by Sierra Leone’s people, this is not a tour emphasizing charity and hopelessness”. Instead, Nurse Mary will be highlighting how African people in Sierra Leone, and beyond, have organized in their own interest to overcome this issue. Rather than waiting for charities or the government to implement band aid projects at their whim, the people of Sierra Leone, under the leadership of AAPDEP and Nurse Mary, have exhibited true self-determination by coming together to create their own programs to combat the deaths of mothers and babies in their community. (read more)