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"The Old Man always told us that football is more than a game. It has the power to bring happiness to ordinary people." - Sir Bobby Charlton
David Beckham plays football on Sierra Leone soil!
Sierra Leone is situated on the west coast of Africa between latitudes 7 and 10 degrees north and longitude 10.5 and 13 degrees west. The Republic of Guinea is to the north and north-east and Liberia is to the east and south-east. Sierra Leone has a total area of approximately 71,740 square kilometres (27,699 square miles), divided into a land area of 71,620 square kilometres and water of 120 square kilometres. It has 300 miles of coastline. From an approximate 70-mile coastal belt of low-lying land, the country rises to a mountain plateau near the eastern frontier rising 4000 to 6000 feet with a rich timber forest region. The Western Area encompasses the Sierra Leone Peninsula, on which the capital and main commercial centre of Freetown stands; is 24 miles long and 10 miles wide. A mountainous promontory, it rises in places to 300 feet above sea level - one of the few parts of the West African Coast where there is high land so near the sea. Where the lush green forest spills down hillsides to meet the most beautiful white sandy beaches along the Atlantic Ocean. This 27,925 square mile (73,326 sq km) country has a population of approximately 4.5 million people. Sierra Leone is divided into four main Provinces, West, North, East and South. There are twelve Districts in the entire country. Most of the country is underlain by rocks of Precambrian age (Archaean and Proterozoic) with a coastal strip about 50 km in width comprising marine and estuarine sediments of Tertiary and Quaternary to recent age. The Precambrian (mainly Archaean) outcrops over about 75% of the country and typically comprises granite-greenstone terrain.
Sierra Leone’s economy is gradually picking up after the unfortunate devastating economic crisis, followed by a civil war that lasted ten years. Sierra Leone has substantial mineral reserves, natural beaches, nice sceneries, agricultural products to name a few. The tourism sector has enormous potentials and is steadily becoming a major player in the economy. Sierra Leone is an ideal eco – friendly holiday destination. More tourist establishments are now on the increase. Well we cannot blame them when the climate is tropical; hot, humid; summer rainy season (May to December); winter dry season (December to April).
Political stability and tolerance have fostered a peaceful co-existence. Sierra Leone is making a steady progress in its socio-economic and political strides. Sierra Leone is now enjoying peace and is open for business. In May 2006, Manchester United invested over £100,000 funding a new programme in Sierra Leone to educate children and young people about HIV/AIDS. Manchester United is a Premier League Football club, based in Old Trafford, Manchester. The club stadium is called Old Trafford. The club was founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, then the name was changed its name Manchester United in 1902. The club moved to Old Trafford in 1910.
Manchester United's Ryan Giggs' grandfather was an immigrant who moved to Wales from Sierra Leone. Ryan's father Danny Wilson is of mixed Sierra Leonean and Welch ancestry and he played rugby for Cardiff RFC. So that makes Ryan Giggs eligible for Sierra Leonean citizenship. Ryan also visited Sierra Leone recently as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF a partner of Manchester United. I will love to see Ryan come back and visit his native land. He is a Legend in my eyes. Yes count me as been biased! I will always say I have seen Ryan live and on television and what an example to future footballers in the Game he has been.
18th October 2010 13:31: Breaking News via Manchester United Website;
Club committed to UNICEF
Manchester United has committed to raise at least £1million to help save the lives of some the world’s most vulnerable children.
The club's partnership with global charity UNICEF has been hugely successful over the last decade, benefitting more than 2.2million children worldwide. This additional £1million commitment is the latest stage of a long-term partnership that will continue to ensure children’s rights are upheld. United has over 300 million fans and 250 million of these live in Asia and Africa, many of them surviving without access to basic healthcare.
This partnership enables United to give something back to those communities all around the world that have long supported the club. The new commitment will go a long way towards ensuring children in the poorest countries have the same chance of a healthy life as the club’s supporters in the UK. The entire £1million will deliver essential funding for UNICEF’s critical work with children around the world.
The £1million will be spent on ensuring babies and young children in the most vulnerable communities are provided with the services they need to survive the first five years of life. These are the most crucial years because, currently:
* every three seconds, today and every day, a child dies from a preventable cause
* malaria is the biggest killer of children under five in Africa and kills approximately one million people every year.
The club will also continue to use the power of United to deliver vital health messages to communities worldwide. In Sierra Leone, for example, the players have recently been part of a billboard campaign promoting safe sex, which resulted in a 20 per cent increase in condom use among young people. It is estimated that more than one billion people worldwide have been reached with key UNICEF messages thanks to the powerful voice of the players. One of the first countries to receive funding from the new £1million commitment will be Senegal, where one child out of 11 dies before its fifth birthday. The partnership will equip 35 child survival centres with everything mums and babies need to ensure a child survives their first five years, including providing basic equipment like malaria nets, weighing scales and beds, medication and training for midwives and healthcare staff.
UNICEF ambassador Ryan Giggs said: "Last year I travelled with UNICEF to Sierra Leone and I saw how hard it is for children to even survive when they live in such incredible poverty. This is just wrong, and I’m so pleased that we are continuing to work with UNICEF to help put it right.” Sir Alex Ferguson, also a UNICEF ambassador, said: "If Manchester United and myself can raise awareness of the suffering that children in the world endure, then that can only be beneficial to UNICEF's continual hard work. This partnership benefits our fans who live all around the world and millions more children, through UNICEF’s work." The Reds will raise £1million through a variety of acitivites. The first fundraising event will be the annual star-studded United for UNICEF dinner, at Old Trafford on Sunday 28 November. Sierra Leone's future generation deserve better and I believe football has a major role to play in this.
2nd December 2007, Manchester United Star players also pitched in against AIDS. Three
of Manchester United’s biggest stars have teamed up with Unicef, the international children’s charity, to target Aids in Sierra Leone. A series of giant posters featuring the players was unveiled yesterday to mark World Aids Day. They will go up on billboards next month to promote HIV awareness among the west African country’s 3m young people. Ryan Giggs, 34, Rio Ferdinand, 29, and Patrice Evra, 26, a diplomat’s son who was born in Senegal, Sierra Leone’s near-neighbour, appear together and separately in the posters, which urge people to use condoms and get tested. According to Unicef, 1.5% of the population are infected. That is low compared with some African countries, but the number of reported cases has increased by 75% in the past five years.Surveys show that as few as 17% of youngsters in Sierra Leone know how to protect themselves against a disease that kills 4,400 people in sub-Saharan Africa every day.The footballers have also recorded a series of television and radio advertisements at Manchester United’s training ground to help to spread the message.
@MUSCSL joining this blog hype fun to share thoughts, experiences and ideas. Off course discuss our beloved country Sierra Leone and Manchester United. All posts are relating to Manchester United in Sierra Leone including some of my opinion but also will share news on different topics including education and sports.
It is with great joy I also read the welcoming news that the new telecommunications company in Sierra Leone Bharti Airtel Sierra Leone has also formed a partnership with Manchester United. This news broke on the 8th December 2010 on the official Manchester United Club website. Please see report below;
Reds welcome airtel
Bharti airtel, a leading global telecommunications company today announced an exclusive partnership with Manchester United and signed a four-year partnership agreement.
The partnership is a first of its kind signed between Bharti airtel and Manchester United in the African continent. Through the partnership United will support the airtel Allstars' search for young African football talent, while airtel customers will have the opportunity to win tickets to watch the Reds play at Old Trafford, take part in coaching sessions and access exclusive United news and download highlights, ringtones and wallpapers through the airtel live media portal.
Manoj Kohli, CEO (International and Joint Managing Director), Bharti airtel said: “Football is the universal passion of Africa and there’s no bigger club in the world than Manchester United. I’m tremendously excited about the opportunities for airtel customers to interact with the brand, win exclusive match tickets and have the chance to train with coaches from one of the leading academies in world football. “Manchester United’s Old Trafford home is known as the Theatre of Dreams and through this deal we hope to fulfil the dreams of thousands of airtel customers over the next four years. "We’re also launching our ambitious airtel Allstars initiative, in association with Manchester United, to find and nurture African talent to make it right to the top of the professional game.” Announcing the deal, Reds' chief executive David Gill said: "We’re delighted to announce a new four-year partnership with airtel Africa, one of the most innovative mobile operator in Africa. This deal gives airtel exclusive rights as the official.
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