Kamara Resume

IBRAHIM SULAIMAN KAMARA as of January, 2005

A. PERSONAL INFORMATION

Name: Ibrahim Sulaiman Kamara

Date of Birth 9^th. April, 1956

Age 49 years

Religion Christian

Marital status Married (with 5 children)

Nationality Sierra Leonean

Country of origin Rep. of Sierra Leone – West Africa

Present US Home Address 6735-E New Hampshire Ave.

Apt.#401 Takoma

Hyattsville,MD20910

Maryland-USA

Telephone (h) 301 270 7149

Cell Phone -# 240 988 0211

Email address: aidsl2002@yahoo.com

Business Address: Adventist Community Services

of greater Washington ,ACS

501 Sligo Ave.

Silver spring, MD 20910

Telephone: 301 585 6556

Fax : 301 585 3074

B. EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

1. 2204/05 – Current Registered student: Proffessional Studies

Medical School of Billing & Coding –Colorado state

2. 2003/04 -Current registered Student: professional / Part-time studies:-2003/04

MBA associate Degree in Business Management – (4 years program)

Thomson Education Direct-Center for Degree Studies, Pennsylvania, USA

3. 1975/77- Voc. / College In- service training

Cert: Socio-Demographic Studies-Dept. of Agricultural Economics & Extension

(Rural Employment Research Project-Sierra Leone)

Njala University College- Sierra Leone

4. 1969 -74- High School

GCE’O’Levels / School Cert. Examination

St: Helena Secondary School

Kissy- Freetown, Sierra Leone

C. Working Experience: In-service Job Trainings-USA- 2003/05

Cert. In Disaster Management services
Cert: in Adult CPR services
Cert: Standard First Aid services

American Red Cross -PG county Chapter-USA

2. Community Volunteers Disaster services Projects co-ordination

Greater DC-Cares Washington, D.C- USA

3. Maryland State –‘Living wage Law’– Program Canvarsser

Progressive Maryland, Inc. Silver spring – Maryland,USA

D. In- Service Trainings in Sierra Leone-(Africa)-1991-2002

Program Leadership and Development trainings with the:

Sierra Leone Association of Non-Governmental Organizations –SLANGO

MSI / USAID , Civil Society Movement-CSM ,

National Forum for Human Rights-NFHR / Truth & Reconciliation Commission-TRC

and Min. of Dev.& Econ. Planning – Govt.of Sierra Leone

- Projects Design, Planning & Implementation

-Projects Co-ordination , Monitoring & Evaluation

-Project Management , Budget & Finance

- Conflict Resolution and Conflict management

- Human Rights protection and good governance

- Business management & Enterprenuership

- Credit loans and management principles

- Office management and basic computer applications

E. 1983-1990

Industrial Relations /Trade Union Administration

and Leadership Development training with the :

Sierra Leone Labor Congress-SLLC/ African American Labour Center-AALC and

Artisans MOW Employees & General Workers Union.

- Collective Bargaining principles –

- Industrial Relations Principles

- Human Resource / personell management

- Trade Union Finance

- Trade Union Administration and Organizing Techniques

- Trade Union leadership and the role of Shop stewards

- Co-operative management

F. EMPLOYMENT SERVICE / WORK EXPERIENCE- (USA)

2004/05- Volunteer-Program Developer

Micro enterprise Development program

Adventist Community services of Greater Washington, ACS

Maryland-USA

Tel:301 585 6556

2003/04- Program Cordinator-P/T

Micro enterprise Development

Metropolitan Community Development Corporation, MCDC

(Economic Empowerment Division)

Maryland-USA

3 . 2003/05- Volunteer

America Red Cross – Disaster Assessment Team-(DAT)

PG-County Chapter -Mary Land, USA

Tel: 301 559 8500 Ext.109

2. 2003/05

(Founder & CEO)

Base-line Resources Inc.-USA

Micro-enterprises Dev.& Community Economic Empowerment programs

Washington , DC-USA

Rep. of Sierra Leone – AFRICA

4. 1991-2002

(Founder & CEO)

Assoc. for International Development and Services, AID-SL

Freetown – Sierra Leone

Programs on Community Economic Empowerment-micro-enterprise dev./

employment & youth s skills training/ Agricultural development /

volunteer coordination / Civic & Human Rights Promotion

5. 1983 – 1990 - Full time

Regional Secretary-(Trade Union)

Artisans, Public Works Employees & General workers Union

Freetown – Sierra Leone

6. 1978 – 1982 – Full-time

Clerical assistant & Trade Union Shop Steward

National Sports Council of Sierra Leone

Freetown -Sierra leone

7. 1975 – 1977 – Full-time

Enumerator / Data analyst

Rural Employment Research Project

Dept.of Agric. Econs. & Extension- Njala Univ. College- Sierra Leone

G. CIVIL SOCIETY / COMMUNITY INTERACTIONS and Representations :

1. In the USA- jan. 2003 to date -

Currently Serving as a Trained American Red Cross Disaster

Services Volunteer in Maryland and Washington, DC.

b. March 2003/05

- Full membership (Baptised) - Bethel World Outreach Church, Maryland

c. Dec. 2002/03

- Established and registered a Nonprofit / Charitable Organization

Base-line Resources Inc-USA in Maryland State with offices located in

Washington, D.C.

d. Nov.2002 –

Represented AID-SL and my country Sierra Leone at the New York

Global Micro Credit Summit Campaign -MCS+5,02 in New York, ,USA

1. In Africa- 1990-2002

Elected National Executive- Sierra Leone Association of non-Governmental Organizations-SLANGO

-SLANGO-Revised Constitutional Chairman-2002

- SLANGO Editorial Board Member-News Bullletins /Publications

- Secretary /Co-ordinator- Humanitarian Agencies Code of Conduct

Principles committee in Sierra Leone representing SLANGO

2002 -National Member of the Civil Society Movement of Sierra Leone – CSM

2000-Represented Sierra Leon / AID-SL to the Africa Region Micro credit Summit –

ARMS in Harare, Zimbabwe

1998-2001- Traveled to the Rep. of Guinea during the Rebel war in Sierra Leone and established a Micro credit loan support Project with Sierra Leonean Refugees

a. In 1998 –

1. AID-SL was accredited internationally as a ‘COUNCIL PRACTITIONER’ with the Micro credit Summit Campaign Secretariat based in Washington, DC at the Africa Region - Abidjan Summit

1998 –

2. Nominated as a national member of the National Forum for Human Rights – NFHR in the Rep. of Sierra Leone

b. In 1997 –

Traveled to the Rep. of the Gambia and established the National Performing Arts Guild –NAPAG Regional Chapter a cultural Performing Arts Group and Tourists Institutional program.

c. In 1996

Established the Democrats Development Foundation-DDF a community -based

Humanitarian development organization-CBO served as a Branch of AID-SL in the

East End of Freetown – Sierra Leone

d. In 1991

I established the ‘ Association for International Developments and Services-AID-SL, a recognized national NGO served as an active Microfinance Institutional practitioner & Human Rights intermediary agency , serving as its Founder & CEO in the Rep. Sierra Leone.

e. Between 1977 to 1990

I served on several civil society executive positions , Religious bodies , Political groups , youth organizations / theatre groups and Human Rights campaign bodies ; which participation with those bodies helped to beef up my community interaction skills and career development that made me to what I am today .

H. INTERNATIONAL AWARDS / CERTIFICATES OF RECOGNITION

1. June, 2003

Received the ‘American Red Cross’- PG County Certificate of Recognition

Award on Community Disaster support services in the USA

2. September, 1998

Received the US-based ‘TRICKLE-UP PROGRAM ‘

AWARD for OUTSTANDING PROGRAM CO-ORDINATION on their Micro-enterprises Development Programs in the Rep. of Sierra Leone.

Compiled and faithfully submitted by

Bro. Ibrahim S. Kamara