Happy Easter African Queen,
I want to thank you for your hard work and dedication to the Liberian Pageantry. I enjoy reading the articles on the Liberian queens and what they are up to. These are strong African females who are about empowering themselves and there communities.
My year as Miss Liberian Minnesota has been enriched with reaching out to the youth in my community through the Liberian Youth Network (LYN), a non-profit organization formed by myself and six other dynamic young Liberian females. Our focus is youth development in the Liberian community, and we've been able to do that through our LOT (Leaders of Tomorrow) mentoring problem.We have been able to conduct one-on-one as well as group mentoring sessions with the youths in our community. Attached are pictures of some of our mentoring program participants.
In addition to our youth development initiative, LYN help bring awareness and fight against the massive deportation of Liberians on TPS. As most of us are aware, Liberian TPS would be terminated in October of this year.Every Liberian would be effected by this regardless of his or her immigration status. We, LYN, would be hosting a fundraising event called Shoot For A Cause on May 19th 2007. Shoot for cause will be a three-on-three basketball tournament and speak-out. During the half-time of each game, speakers would come out to speak on the TPS issue and various steps we can take from here. We would so have some youths in our program speak out about how they would be affected by the termination of TPS. The money raised from Shoot for a cause would go towards helping to pay lawyers and lobbyist in the fight to change TPS recipiants status to permenant residency status.Well, that's all for now.
I hope you enjoy the pictures below of participants in our mentoring program.
Respectfully,
Decontee Kofa
Miss Liberia Minnesota
Note: Check back to see picture from Miss Liberia Minnesota's Mentoring Program will be posted next week.
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