Sierra Leone + Jamaica
Youth Entrepreneurship Exchange Program
This program will connect youth across cultures, communities, and continents to provide students with opportunities to develop the skills they need to become socially responsible, culturally aware, financially literate, disruptive of inequities and compassionate and fearless leaders in their communities.
Program
Opening Remarks
Gordon Tapper
President, United African Congress, and Founder, Give Them a Hand Foundation
Welcome
The Honorable Gale Brewer
Host
Opening Prayers
Rabbi Jill Hausman | Imam Yahya Luqman | Rev. Abdul K. Sesay
Musical Interlude
Russell Daisey
Internationally known composer/singer
Title Sponsor
Dr. Judy Kuriansky
International Association of Applied Psychology, Columbia University Teacher’s College
Remarks
Amb. H.E. Sidque Abou-Bakarr Wai
Ambassador and Chief of Mission, Embassy of Sierra Leone to the United States President Emeritus, United African Congress, USA
Al Ferro
Mayor of Millstone, NJ
Dr. Julius Garvey
Garvey Vascular Specialists
Menashe Shapiro
Deputy Chief of Staff to New York City Mayor Eric Adams
Sierra Leone + Jamaica Youth Entrepreneurship
Program Overview
Rosalea Hamilton
Honorary Consul for the Republic of Sierra Leone in Jamaica
Rev. Jayson Downer
Executive Director, MoGAVA
Fergus Maclaren
Principal at MAC-DUFF Tourism | Heritage | Planning
Presentations of Sponsors
Rakie Macarthy
Minister Counsellor/Head of Chancery at Embassy of Sierra Leone, Co-chair of Free Education Basket Fund
Pastor David Vandy
Co-chair of Free Education Basket Fund
Ezrah Aharone
Founder and Executive Director of Center for Global Africa at Delaware State University
Tom Moverman
Partner, Lipsig, Shapey, Manus & Moverman, P.C.
Closing Remarks
H.E. Sidque Abou-Bakarr Wai
Founder and Executive Director of Center for Global Africa at DSU
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