"ANGOLA: A FABULOUS COUNTRY" Media Reviews Rebuilding Angola Through Music" - Worldview - NPR/WBEZ Chicago "Guerra & Rosa Freitas Are the Fastest-rising Philanthropic African Stars" - Afriscope Radio -Chicago "Angola Musician Turns Hurt to Art" - Mr. Andy Rathbun, Chicago Tribune "Advocating for Peace, Justice, Fairness, Reconciliation, Healing and Love Through Music" - Mr. Luis Costa, Voice of America in Portuguese For more media reviews, please visit www.africalatina.org or visit www.sharecircle.org. Angola: A Fabulous Country" CD Project Background Guerra and Rosa give us a vigorous connection to our brothers and sisters in Angola who have been ravaged by war, are left hungry and disconnected, and can now begin to rebuild with a bit of hope. In 2000, Guerra Freitas invited a group of Chicago musicians from different parts of the world to help him record the songs he wrote on the CD "Angola: Um País Fabuloso No Mundo," or "Angola: A Fabulous Country." Having been born and raised in Angola, and having been deeply affected by the protracted civil war in Angola, Guerra Freitas is engaged in humanitarian projects to ease the suffering of the needy people in the world, particularly in Angola. The CD is dedicated to every Angolan. It is about the beauty of Angola. It is about the contrast between wealth and poverty, peace and war, the lives and deaths of loved ones. It is about unity, national reconciliation and reconstruction. The CD is also loaded with messages of love, justice and fairness. Above all, it is a prayer for peace for every family on earth. The CD is also loaded with messages of love, justice and fairness. Above all, it is a prayer for peace for every family on earth. All the proceeds for the CD sales will benefit SHARE, a 501 (C)(3) organization working in Angola. More information about the participants of the CD project is available at www.sharecircle.org. To order a copy of this fabulous CD, please call 1-847-733-1276. About Guerra Freitas Guerra Freitas is a former elementary school Mathematics and Physics teacher and philanthropic organizations worker, concerned about social and economic problems of countries either in conflicts or emerging from conflicts. In addition to working for SHAREcircle (SHARE) for the last 4 years, He spent 11 years of his life working for Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) in Angola, Africa, that dealt with orphans of war, children handicapped by land mines, mine awareness programs, de-mining projects, refugees and internally displaced people relief projects, free food distribution projects, infrastructures and economic rehabilitation projects. Freitas holds a B.A. from East-West University and he was named the Valedictorian of his class. He is the founder and current CEO of SHARE (www.sharecircle.org), which focuses on orphans and widows of war, single mothers, internally displaced people, and refugees in countries emerging from conflict and civil strife. Freitas resigned from CARE International in Angola, involved in relief and assistance of Refugees and Internally Displaced People, in 1998 after four years as Assistant Regional Administrator. He has attended various short-term courses in Management, Psychology and Philosophy in Germany and Holland, and in Conflict Resolution in Sierra Leone. In 1997 he traveled to South Africa in order to make presentations on the effects of land mines in Angola. In the same year, he delivered an address before the Inter-Action Forum, an association of NGOs based in Washington D. C., giving an update on CARE's activities in Angola. Moreover, he had the privilege of speaking before the U. S. House of Representatives, on the topic of land mines in African nations emerging from conflicts. In addition, he made a presentation before representatives of the World Bank and offered his recommendations for resolving the political conflicts that continued to destabilize Angola at that point in time. In 1993-94 he worked as the Vice-National Secretary for an Angolan Non-Government Organization called A.N.E.I.M., the Portuguese acronym for National Association for Support, Education and Instruction of the Under Age Forsaken and Disabled Children. In 1992-93, unemployed because of the war in Angola, he founded a human rights organization, C.R.J.I.B., the Portuguese acronym for Representative Commission for Intellectual Young People. The purpose of this Non-Government Organization was to work side-by-side with the government of Bié province in particular, and with the government of Angola in general, in creating educational opportunities for the youth who lost their early years of education as a consequence of the war impact on their lives, families and country. In his search for social peace-building, Guerra Freitas has met in total with seven Southern Africa countries. Moreover, Freitas carried out many advocacy campaigns for many diplomats: ambassadors, ministers and prime ministers from different parts of the world. In 1997, he was honored with an invitation to speak at the White House concerning the impact of land mines on civilian population in war-torn African countries. To his deep disappointment, his flight from Johannesburg to New York was delayed and he missed the opportunity to meet with President Clinton. Guerra Freitas has been interviewed extensively by the media, including Voice of America, National Public Radio (NPR)/WBEZ - Worldview, 848 (Chicago), WNUR 89.3 FM, Chicago Tribune, Afriscope Radio, RNA (Angolan National Radio), Radio Bié and several websites. Guerra Freitas is a songwriter, recording, and performing artist. He lives in Evanston with his wife, Rosa Freitas, and two children, Elyzandra and Izequiel Freitas. Find out more about Guerra & Rosa Freitas at htt://www.guerrafreitasmusic.com/