Military Weapons as Raw Materials for Blacksmiths in Sierra Leone

According to the Good Gifts Catalogue (a website where you can buy various gifts for poor people in developing nations):
"Peace is paying dividends in Sierra Leone. The same civil war that depleted the country of tools and work is now providing ample raw material for recovery: weapons. Enterprising blacksmiths and metal workers convert them into farm implements so that a Kalashnikov becomes hoes and axe heads and a rocket launcher transforms into pickaxes, sickles and even school bells.

"The indisputable heavyweight champ is a tank (or a heavy duty 16 wheeler) that can provide a year's work for 5 blacksmiths, turning it into 3,000 items vital to equip a farming village of 100 families. Jobs, tools, agriculture. It isn't everyday that what you long for comes true."

Currently, using a credit card, you can buy 4 kinds of used military weapons for blacksmiths in Sierra-Leone:
- A Kalashnikov (AK-47 Machine Gun) for £25.00.
- A Rocket launcher for £55.00
- A Small Armoured Vehicle for £250.00
- An Armored Tank for £1,000

So who is planning to buy a military weapon for Blacksmiths in Seirra-leone who are trying to rebuild their lives after the costly civil war?

Finally Bible's prophesy is coming to pass in our lifetime.

I hope they are disabling all those weapons.

i dunno what to say
well they've tried

Exu, my thoughts exactly.  I had not heard of this until a few days ago. 

Seun, thanks for the info.  I'm going to pass it along to several of the Sierra Leonian groups I know of in this area.  Maybe a fundraiser can be done to send the needed funds back home.