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Name:
Kimmie
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4,223
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Age:
31
Joined:
Feb 1, 2007
Latest Activity:
2 months ago
Subscribers:
90
About Me:
These experiences would have broken the souls of most people. However, they encouraged Kimmie to follow a path where he could make a difference and work to ensure a world where all children have access to food, medicine, and shelter. It is a vision that he has pursued ever since.
Over the years, Kimmie has formed partnerships and led organizations that have provided education to thousands of students in West Africa, lobbied the disarmament of over 20,000 child soldiers, and provided health care and recreation supplies to children.
Kimmie has faced many obstacles in pursuit of his dream. The biggest was when the Liberian government attempted to assassinate him for a report he issued on its involvement in the training of child soldiers. As a result, Kimmie was forced to flee Liberia when he was seventeen and has since been granted political asylum in the United States.
Today, a graduate of Amherst College, Kimmie is working towards building a movement to positively change the face of Africa. His goal and emphasis focus on empowering the people, providing new opportunities, creating strategic development partnerships with Africa and the west, and using technology to link Africa with the rest of the world. This year, the BBC released the documentary Kimmie Weeks: Back to the Front, which is now airing in the UK. Kimmie is also featured in the new book Peace in Our Lifetime as an international peacemaker, along with Nelson Mandela, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Kimmie's passion for his mission is found in his unique situation, which gives him the ability and opportunity to connect children in need to those young people who have the potential to help.
Country:
United States
Occupation:
Executive Director
Companies:
Youth Action International
Schools:
Amherst College
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Channel Comments
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robynncolemusic
(10 months ago)
Thanks so much for subscribing Kimmie :) you are an amazing person
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lafaith111
(1 year ago)
God Bless You Kimmie!
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Psychdoc2211
(2 years ago)
Keep moving forward with your mission as what you are doing is so very important to this world. Your life and spirit are a testament to the good that can come about by one person's courage and will. Much success and peace to you and Youth Action International.
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calexculux
(2 years ago)
uhmm, you really is right, but I don't still think donation helps, or since when the west and other countries donate, has the problem being gone? no,no why not teach the illiterate farmers how to farm, provide machineries, look the more donation destroyes our reputation, makes us more dependent on foreign countries.
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COMMERCIALMOVIE2008
(3 years ago)
L.I.B.E. represent, you too Mr. Weeks. I see you. Let's stop sitting down and feeds these kids in Liberia. Ya Dig, oh even though dudes say LIB, the E next to LIB stands for Ethnicity. Liberian race. Ya dig me?
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