Day 6 – Alarms are set, we grab breakfast of of spicy cassava and banana, before motorbikes take us deep into Sierra Leone’s inaccessible and remote north. The bike journeys out here are always a thrill, with unpredictable roads littered with holes, detours through thick bush, pools of water and swampy grasses. You want a …
Day 5 – Chiefs, snakes and ducks! A delightfully random day! It’s begins with a remarkable ceremony held at our secondary school. Students offer a crescendo of songs. Well written and perfectly delivered speeches follow, detailing the achievements of our schools within the community. Then from out of nowhere we become honorary chiefs! Soon we …
Day 4 – A return to our original home.It’s a frustrating and uneventful start to the day as we attempt to move from tombo to our project in the north. The roadside negotiation with 10 locals (only one of whom is the actual taxi driver) chews up an hour, before we finally hit the road …
So this girl made me cry today! Kadiatu is our shining female star and 18 is about to sit her final exams. If all goes well she’ll get to go to university and study agriculture.Sat in the back of a hot long bumpy taxi journey between our projects I asked her “kadiatu where did I …
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