Peacebuilder Alimay Korma statement showed me the importance of a grassroot leader as well as the reason behind why people want to see change. Organizations such as the United Nations and those who are similar often send people to places where they are not from and expect them to get warmly welcomed by the community and that doesn’t happen for them. In the quote Alimay Koroma stated used an example of the people in Sierra Leone, stating “ But religious leaders, churches and mosques did not flee Sierra Leone during the war. They remained behind to inspire us that all is not lost”. Unlike the United Nations who will flee a scene if the going gets tough even though they may still be needed, the grassroot leaders of Sierra Leone stayed during the time that they were most needed. Imagine needing someone’s assistance and they offered you a chance of change with them assisting you but…show more content… To Sakena education has a direct link to transforming to a civil society , education has a direct link to getting out of poverty. It was only way to change people lives. There were some who didn’t believe in her because they come from a background where they have been taught that education and women are not expected to go together. But Sakena used scriptures out of the Quran to show them that the Holy Book does want them to be educated and how all human beings are equal. Sakena connected Health and Education together, which were both two valuable resources that weren’t available to women. She saw what the absence of those two resources could lead to. She wanted to teach women how to read, how negotiate with a man, how to gain economic independence, and their rights as a humans! She wanted there to be health clinics to be available to women. There were once a time where women did have access to all these profitable resources and all she wanted was for women today to have those same rights of gender
