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Letter from the German Embassy to LIHEDE
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Botschaft
der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Monrovia
Embassy
of the Federal Republic of Germany |
Monrovia, 24 January 2006 |
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Ref.: WZ 440.00 / V
(Please always state in your reply) |
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Dr. Syrulwa Somah
Executive Director of
LIHEDE
2285 Rothwood Acres Drive
Greensboro, North Carolina 27406
USA |
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Ref.:
Your letter from January 20, 2006
Dear Sir,
I am in receipt of
your kind letter from January 20, where you outline your project
of opening a Center for Youth Empowerment and Athletics in
Monrovia.
The German Embassy
highly values this initiative that will certainly contribute to
the healing of one of the heaviest wounds that 15 years of civil
war have inflicted to Liberia.
As you mention in
your letter, before the civil war, Germany mantained very
intensive relations to Liberia. Let me only mention the Bong
Mines Company that employed thousands of Liberians and gave them
school and professional training. After all that, unfortunately,
had been disrupted by the cicil war, Germany is now doing some
effort in contributing to the reconstruction of Liberia.
Certainly, at the starting phase, relations cannot be resumed at
the same level they used to be at the time when the civil war
erupted. The Embassy itself was reopened, at a very small scale,
only last September.
For all these
reasons I am not in a position, unfortunately, to offer you any
concrete assistance to your project by now. I would be glad,
however, to stay in contact with your organisation and have some
talks with your representatives. Perhaps, a cooperation could be
envisaged for a later stage.
Yours faithfully
sgd.
Thomas Freudenhammer
Ambassador
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