On June 2007 VOI traveled to KaffuBulom to celebrate

It's first year of operation.

Many dignitaries as well as the officers of the Sierra Leone Muslim Missionaries Union were in attendance.  The president of SALEMMU gave the keynote address. View the arrival of President Sheikh M.A.Zakie Kallon.

Prof.Holten also gave a short talk which is produced below. 

Further events and audio clips are available and will be posted from time to time.

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From the “NEW VISION NEWSPAPER” edition of Tuesday June 19, 2007

Published in Freetown, Sierra Leone. And Established January 1988,

Motto: A Better Vision Is A Better Future.

“One Family Foundation”

Offers Advice

The founder of the one Family Foundation in Sierra Leone Prof. Dr. Robert Peter Holten has admonished that it is a sin for people to take away from others, especially poor people without nothing to give to them in return.

He said this is why his "one Family Foundation" is forming alliances with others concerned with development such as the Voice of Islam Radio and scholars to work together as a team to promote good ideas, good behaviour and development in this country.

Prof. Holten made the remarks when be delivered a speech about his impressions and impact of the Voice of Islam Radio near the Rotifunk Mosque at Lungi, Kaffu Bulom Chiefdom past Sunday. The programme was organized by the Lungi Muslim Community in Collaboration with the Sierra Leone Muslim Missionaries Union (SALEMMU) which constitutes the Management of the Radio Station.

Prof. Holten who has been a Mathematics Lecturer at Fourah Bay College for a protracted period added that his foundation supports the contributions of Islamic scholars that match up to peace and development.

He expressed the hopes that the Islamic College at Magburaka will be rehabilitated so that it continues to contribute to the development of the nation, noting that one family will in due course serve as a bridge

to link Muslims in this country to their counterparts in his home (North America).

As part of his objectives, Dr Holten said one family supports the harmony and solidarity amongst everyone, adding that the one message to all is that Christians and Muslims should have a common goal to promote peace and development.

“You will hear more from me over the Voice of Islam Radio in due course, as Allah is looking at everyone concerning the way people move”.

According to Prof. Holten, he has been privileged to meet with some of his old friends he made in 1963, at Lungi and Makeni, especially the late Paramount Chief Komra Kanda III of Kafflu Bullom. He noted that some of the friends he made in 1963 are now adults.

Prof. Holten narrated a dream he had in Makeni of the Voice of Islam Radio and Poverty. He said the dream he had is that one family and the Voice of Islam Radio have common values of love for family life which they should cultivate with a view to encourage family life and eradicate poverty in the country. 

He maintained on a humorous note that "I am sick and the medicine for it is not in this country. That sickness is poverty which is every where in Makeni and in the country", while stressing that the Voice of Islam Radio is equally helping to cure that sickness.