Mohamed Barrie

aka the Obama  has climbed on the top of theBeneficiary/Learners’ Union (BLU)of the Art Resourceful Tourism Sierra Leone’s (ARTSL) Functional Literacy Program as he has triumphantly occupied the glorious seat of their leadership in the just concluded casting of ballots by the Beneficiary/Learners’ Union (BLU) in their Presidential election for 2010/2011 Adult-Youth Education's academic year.

The free, fair and very peaceful democratic elections were held on the 29^th November 2010 at the Art Resourceful Tourism Sierra Leone’s (ARTSL) Functional Literacy Center at the Kissy in Freetown.

The election is meant for the beneficiaries and learners of the Art Resourceful Tourism Sierra Leone (ARTSL) to elect a president who can lead their union and in another view, the election is also part of the civic education methodology aiding to impart a knowledgeable practice of an electioneering process and the promotion of how free and fair elections will become value in the minds of the voters and even the loosen candidate who lost the said election can be courageous and the society they are living in  and hopeful of a future success if they can run their horses on a better path that would lead the people towards instituting positive change in their lives and society at large.

The electoral commissioner,Mrs. Tamara Barrie a Swiss national announced the result just two (2) hours after the conduct of the  elections together with two (2) Co- chairmen; PastorDavid Sarmu of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, in Freetown and Sheick’h Alhassan Kamara of the Masjid Mustaqeem at the Low Cost Housing Estate, Kissy, Freetown, who represented the religious community so to give the opportunity of communual practice of the ethicts of this elections and to also create a balane of the religious set that is of utmost importance for the beneficiaries of ARTSL.

Citizen Radio FM103.7, Kissy, Freetown and Mr. Alie M Barry sponsored he election in various ways.

The Founder and Executive Director of ARTSL, Sheka B. A. Mansaray Jr. in his statement on the night of the elections he said; “It was the aspiration of the beneficiaries to have been in formal education schools were they should exercise extracurricular activities at their childhood, but for some obvious reasons some of them could not earn formal education whiles some did and dropped out of school. It is beyond this back drop that, the Executive Director believed that they can still recover all those activities that they have missed as this election is just one among others. Furthermore, he said, “Youth-Adult learning and education is not all about becoming literate in reading and writing, it traverses beyond to include civic education, civic responsibilities with their rights.

The Director referred to the president elect, Mohamed Barrie as a courageous fellow, humble and focused to his task, and could remember that Barrie has he loses 2009/2010 elections to the outgoing president who in turn today had lost honourably with love and fairness as he is embracing Mr. Barrie.

Long Live ARTSL!

Long Live BLU!

Long Live Our President Mohamed Barrie!