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Dear Mr. Garrick,
My name is Amanda Blount and I am a volunteer project
coordinator for a non-profit organization named
Miracle Corners of the World. I am also a senior at
Rutgers University in New Brunswick.
I recently saw your beautiful work online and wanted
to contact you. It is inspirational to me.
I spent last summer volunteering in Freetown at the
iEARN center for child-soldier rehabilitation, which
is located at the National Stadium. Not only did I
fall in love with the children, but also with the
country. Upon arriving back in the States, I
immediately looked for any job position that would
place me back in Sierra Leone. I landed an internship
with Miracle Corners of the World, which builds
self-sustaining youth outreach centers in developing
countries. I asked them if they were interested in
building a center in Freetown, and as it turned out
they had already been in contact with a Sierra Leonean
who wanted to do so also. This gentlemen, Harry
Gbetuwa, and I have been developing the construction
plan for the past eight months and I am moving to
Freetown in May to oversee the construction of this
center. It will be in Kissy, Freetown, near the police
barracks. The police kindly donated the land for our
outreach center. We hope that our afterschool sports
center, literacy classes, and computer resource center
will reach over 200,000 Sierra Leoneans once it is
built. I am so excited to go back and excited to work
in such a wonderful city, again.
I wanted to reach out to you and tell you that I adore
your work- it's inspirational for me and my
colleagues. Our organization is very small and as we
expand into other countries I am always thrilled to
reach out to others whose hearts and minds reside in
these conflicted places.
Thank you so much for all your work. I will take your
message of hope with me when I leave.
Sincerely,
Amanda Blount
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