Kimmie Weeks

[1] He and his mother, Estina Ntow, were forced to leave their home and marched with many other displaced Liberians to a refugee camp set up in university buildings.

[1] While in the camp, Weeks became deathly ill - dehydrated due to cholera, he also contracted chickenpox and yellow jaundice.

That same night, Weeks vowed to dedicate the rest of his childhood and adult life to making the world a better place for children.

[7] In 1997, with the holding of general disarmament in Liberia, Weeks established Liberia's first children's information service, The Children's Bureau of Information, which worked alongside Search for Common Ground/Talking Drum Studio to produce radio programs aimed at reintegrating child soldiers into the community.

[8] By Presidential request, Weeks also served as National Orator for programs marking Liberia's Independence Day Celebration.

[16] The organization provides education, health care and economic empowerment for children and youth in post-war African countries.

Weeks also serves in a part-time capacity as Chief Corporate Communications Strategist for Liberia second largest GSM company called Cellcom; he stepped down in 2016.

[18] In 2012, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf appointed Weeks as Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Liberia Water and Sewer Corporation.

The primary immediate task of the corporation is to provide safe drinking piped water to more than 800,000 Liberians in the capital for the first time since 1990.