Sylvanus Sila Gooding

Young people at iEARN

Originally uploaded by Jon - Cafesociety.org.

Age:16

School: Prince of Wales Secondary School

Home address: No 15 Bunduka Street, Grassfield off BaiBureh Road Kissi Mess, Freetown, Sierra Leone.

Email Address: sylvangooding@yahoo.com

As a student, I like and want to be part of a lot of things that entail education such as computer literacy, languages, educative television programs, positive music, religious morals etc, and I also like playing games that will develop my sporting prowess; my favourite sports are soccer and basketball. My hobbies are reading books of great importance to my schooling, novels of legendaries and mythical fictions, watching programs on television, movies and listening to the radio.

The ten years of civil war in our country (Sierra Leone) affected my life and many others in my community adversely and as a result, changed the whole story about the country from a fine and peaceful country to violent and undeveloped one. Because of the bad governance which is the order of the day, corruption is the chief security officer were as lacking and slackness has become the name of a greater amount of the country’s population. the war also brought a stand still to education, our economy and population growth.

Thanks to God for the work of Jon, Matt and Murray in IEARN SL ,trying to get us young ones engaged in the field of media; it is a tremendous job and we appreciate it very much. They have been doing a job that will benefit us in the mere future, these skills that we are acquiring from these three wonderful guys can improve our lives by earning us a career in radio stations, television stations and even in the filming industries.

Let me therefore note the importance of the skills; improving our lives is one and also one major aspect of young people in Freetown receive media training is because media training is very important in the lives of the young people of Sierra Leone and it is paid great attention to . Young people all over the world must have a voice that can reach international audiences for by so doing, they will be able to express themselves, things bothering their lives and communities and they will be able to have a say in issues of global importance, therefore, the world will know how to solve problems relating to young ones of Sierra Leone.

Lastly, my hopes and ambition for the future are many, but this are few that i will list down; I hope to see the world at peace and all attention focused to things of God and may His grace abound. I intend to be one of the world’s most learned gentleman and want to live a life of Godliness.