MOTIVATION LETTER

Dearest SLEMSians,

Join me as I reminisce on what a long road it has been to get to this point, and with the click of each key on this computer I think of one more thing I can do to make my beloved SLEMSA a better place. My name is , a 4th Year medical student and as you take this journey with me, I hope you feel the energy emanating from the pages because that’s the only way we as Sierra Leoneans can truly communicate – actions full of positive energy.

My journey to this stage started the day former President Dr John Mammie walked into my Premed 1 class and said the words “My name is …” and “I am a representative of SLEMSA”. Without him saying much, I knew this was it, the Association I had wanted to be a part of all this time. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not just selling you what I think you want to hear, but I wanted this so badly. Not just because of the way the message got passed across or because I wanted to make something of myself in medical school, but because I had been following their activities for two (2) years past and I wanted to join this amazing battle of education and advocacy. And sometimes I wonder how a high school pupil even gets obsessed with something like this long before he is even required to participate in any bit of it. But I think at this exact moment, I have gotten the answer. It was not only my right and privilege to express freely how I felt about the things going on around me, but I had an obligation to do those things regardless of passion or desire. As a wise comic character once said “If you could do good things for other people, you had a moral obligation to do those things. Not choice, responsibility”.

Capacity building, Advocacy and Administrative Development have been the focus areas of my work within SLEMSA, from my rst OC appointment to being Secretary General of the Association from 2019-2021, and quite frankly the driving factors towards my life goals. I am constantly motivated by the actions of my peers and what we can make the future be together. In the midst of all the late nights, excess screen time and the toll the job takes on my daily life, I have found the means to balance the more important things in life with the lesser, and in turn acquired the ability to work through pressure. It may seem I am working for the SLEMSA, and rightly so, but I am gaining at a rate that permits me to call this opportunity a learning process

Thank You.

Yours sincerely