Amar'e Stoudemire in Sierra Leone, Africa - StatTV

Over the summer of 2008 Stoudemire visited the Sierra Leone on behalf of his foundation Each 1 Teach 1, traveling to the sites where well digging is to take place. Each 1, Teach 1 is working with the Zee Community Development Foundation in order to bring much needed clean water to the region.

While there Stoudemire met with Sierra Leone's heads of state, the president and vice president. He had the opportunity to shoot some hoops with the Sierra Leonean team and will be funding the building of a sports academy.

Stoudemire has said of the expedition, "This is a trip that I had been looking forward to taking my whole life. We had already begun to help the communities in Sierra Leone, and it was great to see the efforts in person. One water well built provides water for 450 people, so as you can see, the impact is huge."

The area currently has a high death toll, which is caused largely by very preventable sanitation-related diseases. Stoudemire's involvement has been seen as an inspiring presence by the government, other NGOs and the locals. His contributions have helped ZCD's goal of providing every household with safe drinking water become a more feasible reality.

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[ani1616]

Come back home africans americans sierra leone welcomes you brothers.

[timbotantrum]

Amare's the man. Love that smile while he's pumpin the water.

[VanRoble]

Now that's some cool stuff.