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 …
Day 3 – Monday. Most of the children return to school but with some awaiting exams at the end of the week we still had many willing helpers around the centre. With a rain free morning Mark was able to train and oversee the re-roofing of one of our homes, whilst I lead the paint …
Day 2 – Sunday is a buzz of activity around the centre! We start with planting. With constantly rising food prices the need to grow our own food is essential. 23 mango and 26 cashew trees are planted, with banana, guava and avocado to come. We’re also planning a sweet potato crop and a kitchen …
Day 1. Two sleep deprived chaps arrive at our Tombo children’s village, our home nestled high up in the hills on the outskirts of Freetown. It’s most definitely rainy season! Heavy storms break up our first day as we share stories with the children and learn how they are doing at school. They are such …
The goodbyes and the logistics of travelling with 110kgs of donations. Arghhh! Orphfund taxis (aka dad) is set to go!
Tomorrow somewhat reluctantly (and partially excitedly) i head back to Sierra Leone for a whirlwind 8 days of intensive work across our OrphFund projects.Its always emotional. I’ll be sad to leave my own family for that of my Orphfund family. I’m worried that i’ll become sick again! I’m excited to see how those little faces …
A great day with an old friend in Somerset yesterday! We are teaming up again with the wonderful charity School in a bag who have donated 65 bags full of amazing educational goodies for our kids in Sierra Leone. So far they’ve handed out over 100000 bags for kids around the world!! Amazing!!
Pretty much the first ever photo I took in the village of kamakwie, Sierra Leone.This was the birthplace of our first ever children’s village and is a place that sits deeply in my heart. There are so many vulnerable children in a country that is without doubt the hardest place we work. Locked in poverty …
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