Update From Tom
I have been back for more than three months now after spending over one year directing our programs in Sierra Leone. Schools were opening when I left and, thanks to the help of many […]
COVID 19 Updates
COVID-19 & Its Effects on the Students of Sierra Leone
Thanks to hard lessons learned five years ago during the Ebola hemorrhagic fever epidemic in West Africa, Sierra Leone was already well experienced in the practice of quarantining, contact tracing, and lock
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Palm Oil Rendering
The majority of people in Sierra Leone are too poor to amass food and other supplies for more than even a few days. This makes it impossible to enforce a hard lockdown
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Covid-19 is hitting harder
Currently Covid-19 is present in Freetown and in other towns of Sierra Leone and neighboring Guinea. But without adequate testing it is still unclear how prevalent it is. Travel restrictions bar movement between districts, making
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Lockdown
On April 6 Sierra Leone imposed a nationwide, mandatory, three-day lockdown. Four cases of COVID-19 had been confirmed in Freetown. Not many so far, but the neighboring country of Guinea had confirmed over 100