Cassandra Garber

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Cassandra Garber is a notable Krio and is the one of the founding members and current president of the Krio Descendants Union. She was a former teacher at the Freetown Secondary School for Girls in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Currently the organization she runs has donated money to the victims of Hurricane Katrina and has also tried to establish links between the descendants of Jamaicans and African Americans (the Sierra Leone Creole people) and the present day black Americans and Jamaicans. The KDU is also linked with the Krio Heritage Society in New York and Ronald Lisk-Carew's organizations in the United Kingdom. On June 21st 2007, Cassandra Garber sent a press release to former President Tejan Kabbah commemorating the 220th annivesary of the establishment of Freetown and also the British abolition of the slave trade. Mrs. Garber also witnessed the launch of the Krio union 'Kotoku' alongside the current mayor of Freetown, Winstanley Bankole Johnson.

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