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Serve the Children Speaker Resumes


 * Sackie Kwalalon** is 41 years old. He was born in Yowee village in Bong County, Liberia where his parents were farmers. He has five sisters and three brothers, two of whom have died during the war. He is married to Rebecca (RB) who is currently studying in the US to be a RN. They have two sons; Joshua who is with his mother and is 12 years old and Caleb who lives with his father and is 5 years old. He has a 4 year college education.

Sackie started working with children in 1992 as a teacher out of a desire to help children who had suffered a loss of family and loved ones during the war that had started in 1989.

He started working with a local organization to help establish schools to aid some of the thousands of orphans that were roaming the country, trapped by the war, with nowhere to go. That’s where we found him and he was hired as our country director to operate our schools in Liberia. He is also a pastor and leads a 60-member church in Monrovia without pay.

Sackie says "I didn’t want to become involved in the fighting...I was threatened by some soldiers. Soon I was helping their children." When asked why he remains in Liberia, he replies, "I don't have anywhere to go...we teach children the word of God. Some are Muslims, but we keep them here and help them too. We can't kick them out just because they are Muslim. Children receive care in our schools...when people are helping them like we do; they feel important all of a sudden."


 * Doug Collier** was born in Tacoma, Washington in 1952; the third out of four sons in a family of 7. Doug has been married to his wife Lu since 1974 and they have two children; Kristin who was born in 1977 and Joshua who was born in 1980.

Doug received a degree in business administration from the University of Washington in 1974 and a Masters Degree in Management from the University of Puget Sound in 1982. He also has a graduate degree in Accounting from the University of Puget Sound from 1981.

In between college degrees he worked for various local and national companies. These positions were mainly administrative and management positions. He has been a CPA since 1983. Doug also has a series 7 stockbroker’s license.

Prior to opening his CPA practice in 1984, he was on full time staff at Pierce College for three years teaching classes in Accounting, Taxes, Computers, Marketing, Management, and Ethics. Doug has also taught at the University of Puget Sound and St Martins College.

In 1997, Doug co-founded Serve the Children. STC is a Washington based non-profit organization with operations in Liberia, Indonesia and India. Their mission is to improve the future of children by meeting their educational, emotional, and physical needs in a biblically based environment.

STC currently operate 2 schools in Liberia with 41 Liberian staff and one American serving over 1,000 children impacted by war and we operate a dormitory in Ankur, India providing free housing to about 80 children so they can attend a local public school. We partner with an orphanage in Indonesia serving over 100 children.

Serve the Children is an all volunteer organization in the US. Doug is the board president.