Compassion and Personal SacrificeBureau of Public AffairsWashington, DC May 8, 2003 ![]() Etta started carrying the message everwhere she could. She joined Friends of Sierra Leone, an organization founded by former Peace Corps volunteers who wanted to increase American awareness of the suffering and to lobby Congress to bring peace to Sierra Leone. She also took 6 weeks of leave without pay to travel back to her home to assist UN efforts to promote peace. Then she helped raise funds to bring eight Sierra Leone amputees to New York to accept the help of a New York prosthesis maker. "I couldn’t ignore them,” she said. Great job, Etta. Read the rest of the story in State Magazine, May 2003
Released on May 14, 2003 |