Why Women Count - Sierra Leone

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Uploaded by on Mar 5, 2009

http://www.tve.org/whywomencount/ To obtain all of the Why Women Count short films from 41 countries on DVD, please go to http://www.tve.org .

Fifty-eight year old Mary Musa is the first woman Chair of New Sembehun Town Council in Koidu, in the heart of Sierra Leone's conflict-riddled diamond industry in Kono district. Brought up in a poor farming family where boys, not girls, were educated, Mary's mother encouraged her to finish her schooling and win a college scholarship and a higher teacher's certificate.

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  • After reading about how the socioeconomic situation in Sierra Leone is gradually getting worse, it's good to see a video about this counsellor striving to make things better. May she and her colleagues be successful.

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