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?

I will have to look into this more but it's definitely something worth contributing to. Knowing about the war and how it ravaged that place; they need a lot of help in rebuilding.

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

I hope they are disabling all those weapons.

Brings to mind an old song with the chorus :

  " And into plow-shears turn their swords, nations shall make war no more"

i dunno what to say
well they've tried

Was the [pain of war] also part of the 'bible prophesy'?

Those people have suffered, undeservedly so.

I'm glad that the situation there is somewhat settled now.  And also, that people are using their initiative: making the best use of what they have; turning a negative instrument into a positive one.

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.

What a good way to start after so much trouble