Welcome to QPNWA

 N.B. This website is in the process of being updated. Please forgive us if things are not quite right they will be rectified.

 Quaker Peace Networks West Africa is a charity promoting health, education and peace building in West African countries including Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ghana. Our current focus is to develop a Peace Centre and Clinic in the Rokel  area of Sierra Leone. We also have a programme for the provision of wells in this primitive  area. more

 Recent and Forthcoming Events

Dorothy Opens Well

 

In April Dorothy Crowther and Abdul Kamara visited the centre at  Rokel. While there Dorothy opened a well in the village of Marout. The women were doing a six mile round walk to get fresh water. See more about wells here and about the visit here.. 

During the visit they met a group of amputees who were victims of the civil war. They identified a need for a well for the amputees. We are pleased to announce that the Suzy Fund have agreed to fund the well and work is now advanced. http://www.suzyfund.org

 

 Dorothy and Abdul with Amputees

 

 

 

Fund Raising Event

We were entertained at the Badger Farm Community Centre

Winchester on  12th June 2011 . Five musicians donated their time free of charge and delighted us with their performances of classical favourites. Members of the quartet were Fiona Crowther, Sarah Harrison, Ian Partridge and Tony Pill. The keyboard was played by Steve-Kent Davies.   £370 was collected in donations for QPNWA. We would like to thank all the musicians, the donors who paid for the room and insurance and those who donated tea and coffee and of course the wonderful audience who gave so generously to the cause.more...

 Forthcoming visit to USA

Abdul Kamara will be visiting the USA in August and hopes to meet with supporters in the New York area. Please email him if you would like to meet him while he is there. email  admin@qpnwa.co.uk

Health  

Health services in Rokel are non existant and we have been asked to build a clinic. for more info click here

 

 

Walls of  New Clinic April 2011

 

 

Freetown Quaker Meeting

A small group of Quakers have been meeting in each others homes Their  numbers have expanded considerably. A small meeting house was completed in 2010 thanks to Quaker Peace and Social Witness UK. The meeting house is now too small and a new one is being built. To see more click here

 

Visit Reports

From the Ashes of War ...

When Abdul Kamara was asked by his friends in 1998 Freetown to join the rebels and fight he said emphatically “No. I believe that fighting and war are wrong”.

Although there was no Quaker Meeting in Freetown he had met Quakers and had correspondence with FWCC. He was convinced by the Quaker message. He even started a successful Quaker Reading Group. Because of his pacifist stance he was imprisoned and tortured by both sides of the conflict. Eventually he and a friend escaped to a refugee camp in Ghana. Here he came into contact with Quak
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Quaker Peace Network Consultation Nov 2011

 N.B. This website is in the process of being updated. Please forgive us if things are not quite right they will be rectified.

 

Quaker Peace Networks West Africa is a recently formed  small charity which aims at relieving poverty and looking at ways of preventing violence in communities across West Africa. Our first area of work is the Rokel area which is east of Freetown Sierra Leone. Read more ...