Farsighted

Children

To the Editor:

I was in tears of joy as I read the article about the funds sixth graders at Reed Intermediate School raised in America for Liberian war victim students at the Carolyn Miller School in Buduburam, Ghana.

As a refugee myself, I can’t help but appreciate this kind gesture orchestrated by American children. I appreciate their efforts and as a result would like to show appreciation through your medium.

I am also an editor of a Buduburam-based refugee newspaper, The Vision and website found at www.thevisiononline.net, but currently on a journalism fellowship here in America.

As I was surfing the Internet, I came across the article on your website. As a matter of fact, the founder of Carolyn Miller is a personal friend of mine and my staff at The Vision as we have worked together in publicizing the unmet educational needs of Liberian children in Buduburam.

Please convey my heartfelt gratitude to those American children for their farsightedness when grownups are hardly ever interested in knowing how bad war can be to children. I think these little American children have been able to know not just about war in Liberia but about Africa in general, something I found during my travels across the great nation unbelievable that many Americans are not at all informed about what happens elsewhere apart from what goes on here in America. And yet they (Americans) have arguably the best information dissemination media here.

Thanks so much and God bless these kids and your staff.

Semantics King, Jr

C/O Solomon Hurley 1123 South Carolina Street, Apt A, Amarillo, Texas 79102                             June 15, 2007