USA Africa Dialogue Series - Professor Eldred Jones - Appeal

Dear Colleagues,

With the Moderator's permission, I would like to bring to your attention an appeal that has been launched on behalf of Professor Eldred Jones. As many of you will be aware, Professor Jones is a former Principal of and currently Emeritus Professor of English at Fourah Bay College (FBC), University of Sierra Leone.  I am one of many who were fortunate to benefit from Professor Jones' inspirational tutelage at FBC and I was understandably moved by the rather heartrending appeal relating to him which has just come to my attention.  I may be wrong, but I have been thinking that there are bound to be kindred spirits within this unique academic community of USA Africa Dialogues who might want to help us make Professor Jones' current situation better and it is with that hope in view I forward this communication to you.

I reproduce below (with permission) the text of the appeal I refer to, which is made on behalf of Professor Eldred Jones by the Fourah Bay College-USA Google Group, an online forum for FBC alumni in the USA. The author of the appeal, Mrs Denise Macfoy, is an FBC Alumna of my acquaintance.  The appeal has been made directly to members of that FBC-USA forum, but obviously support from others including USA Africa Dialogues subscribers will be very much appreciated:

From: dmacfoy <DMACFOY@imf.org>
Date: March 22, 2016 at 10:04:48 PM EDT
To: FBCUSA <fbcusa@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Urgent Help Needed for Former FBC Principal, after a Lifetime of Dedication to Education in Sierra Leone
Reply-To: fbcusa@googlegroups.com

Dear Fellow FBC Alumni,

 

As some of you may have heard, one of the icons in Sierra Leonean academia, Professor Eldred Durosimi Jones, recently suffered two life-altering losses. Just a few months after his beloved wife passed away, a fire burned down most of his house. A lifetime of academic work, his literature, publications and all his Braille collections were lost in the fire. Professor Jones who is 91, and completely blind, now finds himself without his devoted care-giver and the familiar surroundings of him home - you can imagine how his life has been affected! The cost of rebuilding his home stands at 250 MILLION Leones.

This is an appeal for those of us who benefitted from the excellent standards he imparted during his tenure as Professor and Principal of Fourah Bay College, and from his invaluable contributions to our education, to reach back and assist in his time of distress.  An account has been opened by trusted family members in Freetown to help with the rebuilding of his home. I will ensure that all donations are listed and circulated to the group, along with the total collected. Please send an email to Denise.macfoy@icloud.com with the details of your donation, so that I can keep accurate records of donors and amounts.

 

The Freetown account details are the following:
Union Trust bank A/c no: 210-0388601-01
IBAN number: 004001210038860142
A/c name Nemata & Valerie Disaster Relief Fund. Please use FBC USA as a reference on the transfer.

 

Please feel free to contact me at the above email address or at (202) 569-9356 if you have any questions

If you are able to contribute, a million thanks, and may God richly bless you.

 

Denise Macfoy (Nee Conton)

 

END

 

I hope USA Africa Dialogues subscribers will respond positively to this appeal.

Regards

Kayode Robbin-Coker

Cambridge, UK

 

 "Only take one tree to make a thousand matches,

  Only takes one match to burn a thousand trees ..." 

  (The Stereophonics)

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