Developmental Issues
Taia Lion Resources Retains Javelin Partners as Corporate Development Advisors
Taia Lion Resources Retains Javelin Partners as Corporate Development Advisors
New York, New York (JAVELIN – April 20, 2011) — Taia Lion Resources Inc (the “Company” or “TLR”) is pleased to announce the commencement of a 12 month engagement wherein Javelin Corporate Development Partners Inc. (“Javelin” or “Javelin Partners”) will serve as a corporate development and investor relations consultant to the Company. Javelin will provide several services including: corporate strategy development, financial forecasting, creation of marketing materials, news flow planning, investor relations consulting, and other mining-related corporate development responsibilities.
Taia Lion Resources was established in 2011, through Taia LLC’s (“Taia”) acquisition of Lion Mining Company (“LMC”). Taia LLC was founded in 2003 by award-winning actor Jeffrey Wright and retired US Army Brigadier General Larry Gilespie with a view to implement a sustainable and commercially viable mining model to promote long-term economic growth for both shareholders and community. Taia acquired two gold exploration licences for concessions at Sandaru and Pujehun, in 2004, and a third, at Gori Hills Central, in 2010. Additionally, a not-for-profit arm of Taia, The Taia Peace Foundation, was established in 2007 to address the social development needs of the communities in which Taia was exploring. LMC has been actively involved in Sierra Leone’s mining sector for over 20 years, bringing significant operational expertise as well as exploration and mining licences to Lake Sonfon. Taia Lion Resources now has an exciting geological portfolio, with the right platform in place for growth, expansion and value enhancement.
“We are pleased to have the support of Javelin Partners. We believe strongly that our project in Sierra Leone holds considerable value for international investors and the local community alike. Javelin’s assistance in communicating our story will be crucial to the development and evolution of our Company,” says co-founder, Jeffrey Wright, Golden Globe and Emmy award winner.
Darin Milmeister, Javelin Principal adds, “TLR’s promising geology, coupled with a strong commitment to corporate responsibility in Sierra Leone effectively captures Javelin’s core philosophy about the opportunity that modern mining creates for developing countries. We look forward to building on the expertise resident within TLR’s members as we work together to cultivate what could be a financially lucrative and value enhancing project.”
TLR is currently focused on its ongoing exploration program, which is already yielding positive geological results. Concurrently, the Company is actively pursuing other strategic alliances and opportunities which should be accretive to TLR’s overall portfolio.
About Taia Lion Resources
Taia Lion Resources (TLR) Inc. is an Alberta, Canada registered company established to identify, acquire, explore and develop precious metal and mineral deposits in Sierra Leone, West Africa. The primary mission of TLR is to achieve the highest sustainable profits and shareholder value through the implementation of a sustainable and commercially viable mining model that promotes long-term economic growth for both company and community alike. TLR is currently focused on quantifying its gold deposits (in Lake Sonfon and Gori Hills/Sandaru), and plans to expand and pursue the exploration of other natural resources in due course. TLR is committed to conducting partnered and empowered operations in a sustainable manner, whilst demonstrating the highest tangible efforts toward social and economic development.
About Javelin Partners
Javelin Corporate Development Partners is a Toronto based mining industry consulting firm that assists junior resource companies in effectively communicating their stories to the market. Clients are selected in instances where Javelin has identified opportunities to unlock and expose previously unrealized investment value. Launched in October 2010, the Javelin team is headed by Jed Richardson, Principal.
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Coopi intensifies support to Food Security in Sierra Leone
Coopi intensifies support to Food Security in Sierra Leone
An Italian International Organization –Cooperation Internazionel (Coopi) has intensified it support to the tieless effort of the government in ensuring food security for the people of Sierra Leone; by distributing agricultural tools and organic fertilizer to subsistence farmers in the Urban West of Freetown.
In addressing the beneficiaries, Mr. Abdul. A.B.Senesie; the Coordinator for the Subsistence Farmers program at Coopi Organization explained the back ground of the project “This project in funded by the European Commission and implemented by Coopi in collaboration with the National Association of Farmers in Sierra Leone (NAFSL)”.
Mr. Senesie lamented on the various supports his organization is presently given to farmers in Sierra Leone; especially the West –Urban Subsistence Farmers in Freetown. Mr. Senesie also said that the objective of the day’s activity is to support Subsistence farmers with tools and organic fertilizer that will help the beneficiaries to engage in diversified food production by practicing the new agricultural techniques learnt during workshop sessions that preceded the distribution exercise.
Despite all the previous support from Coopi, the coordinator from Coopi explained that the present exercise is aimed at empowering the various subsistence farmer groups in the Urban West of Freetown with tool and fertilizer.
Mr. Bob Mangu who is the Admin Secretary for the National Association of Farmers in Sierra Leone (NAFSL) was one the observers at the distribution exercise; which took place at the Horticulture Division of the Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Food Security, at New England in Freetown.
In an exclusive interview with one of the beneficiary group leaders, Madam Nana Samura; who gave the vote of thanks; She appreciated the move made by Coopi to complement government effort in ensuring Food Self Sufficiency for farmers in Sierra Leone .According to Madam Nana Samura, the supply of tool and fertilizer had been a long gone story and she said that it has been over a period of two years without receiving such support from any government institution or Non –Governmental Organization; so she said they are very pleased to receive the tools and fertilizer. She also expressed that a heartfelt thanks to Coopi and the Government; on behave of all the other beneficiaries.
Madam Nana Samura went on to explain that most of group members are widows and their only means of survival is their back yard vegetable garden. She lamented that most of their children are out of school because they cannot pay school fees out of the subsistence vegetable gardening and she asked that Coopi and the government help them with scholarships for their ; in order to take them out of the circle of poverty . Madam Nana Samura ,who is the chairlady for the New England Vegetable Growers Association and a member of the Urban District Farmer’s Associative Executive, said that one of the major problem facing her group members (especially those who have their vegetable garden down below the Coco-cola Company is the contaminated waste that is constantly been deposited
