We met Jeffrey Wright of Taia Peace through MacDella Cooper - our board member.
While good humanitarian work has been done in Africa in recent years, the challenge of sustainability persists. Taia Peace would like to rethink the character of "aid to Africa" by acknowledging the Continent’s role in catalyzing its own reawakening. Their reach is  international, but our agenda is shaped locally by the communities with which they partner.
They place value on listening and act out of an understanding that more often what is lacking at chiefdom level is access to capital rather than access to the wisdom to identify development constraints.
The road ahead is bright for Sierra Leoneans, but collaboration with responsible and forward-thinking partners will help empower them to pave the way toward continued stability and future prosperity. In 2003, in an attempt to act as just such a partner, a couple of American actors and two retired senior officers from the United States Army—a seemingly unlikely but simpatico group—came together to start the work that would lead to the creation of Taia Peace Foundation. Taia Peace, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 2007, works in parallel with a commercial enterprise, Taia, LLC (founded in 2003), toward a single shared aim: to assist rural communities in overcoming the so-called “resource curse.” While the seed for the formation of Taia Peace germinated in central Sierra Leone near the River Taia (Mende for “black”), their hope is to work at the behest of communities across Africa as they endeavor to remove the economic barriers that limit their capacity to build a lasting peace.
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