Saturday, February 25, 2017

Sierra Leone

  • I spent two weeks in Freetown, Sierra Leone working with an organization called Enable the children.
  • https://worldhope.org/enable-the-children   for a video that describes and shows what they do. 
  • There is over 600 children on caseload that Anna, a physiotherapist from UK, and four local therapists see. 
  • They visit the children in their homes as it is hard for the older children to be carried and taken to a clinic.
  • They also have two clinics a week at the children's hospital.
  • Below is a sampling of the photos of the area. 
  • Please feel free to contact me for more details. 
Cockle Point. This is a river. We walked across it to the other side of the sand bank. The Atlantic Ocean awaited. 



This is one of the many sunsets seen from the balcony where I stayed in Freetown 

Just a regular evening 

Boats and Ships could be seen off the coast at Lumley Beach and other locations in Freetown.

I got the hang of biting the proper size hole in the corner of a bag of water. 

Two of our guards :)

View from the balcony

When one guard is off duty, another is one duty. The human guard is sitting in the doorway.




Early morning view from River No.2

Early morning view from River No.2





Tokeh Beach

Local fisherman 

Team work is required to bring in the large net and hopefully large catch. 

Team work is required to bring in the large net and hopefully large catch. 

This is why we often left the house at 630 AM...to beat the traffic. Yes, motorbikes and dump trucks drive that close together. 

One of the PT clinics at one of the women and children's hospital

One of the many dogs who live on the streets.

Men working hard moving things from one place to another.

They are great at building scaffolding out of large sticks and wire. 



Street lights are being installed on this stretch of road. 

View of some of Freetown from above

One of the cellphone companies constructed this in a round about.

Sunset somewhere between Freetown and Monrovia

Sunrise in Brussels