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Sweet Salone……..Lurching from one crisis to another
Wilkinson Road flooded with cars swimming through the flood waters. Credit: M & R Ropiecki Extraordinary scenes in Freetown for the last few days. Sierra…
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Rearrangement of the school year after Ebola
Let’s keep focused! Multiple, multiple changes to the academic year have had extraordinary knock on consequences for Sierra Leone’s children. To start with, during the…
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Lucy Howling – Mellor Rose Queen 2015-16
Hello, I’m Lucy! This year I am Mellor Rose-Queen. The tradition of crowning a young girl as Rose Queen developed in the farming communities of Northern…
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Musa Koroma B.ENG. – From Sierra Leone to St. Petersburg
Opportunity, chance, and fortune can play such a big part in Sierra Leone sometimes. The proximity of absolute poverty to daily life means that only…
Read MoreThe Progress of the Vaccines
Back in January, I wrote a blog post about the on-going vaccine trials that were providing hopeful signs to find a permanent preventative drug against…
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Liberia declared Free from Ebola
Yesterday, Liberia became the first of the three countries at the centre of the Ebola outbreak to have been declared free from the virus, after…
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Kabiru Mansaray: “There are others not as fortunate as us.”
The Guardian website published a video last week covering some of the difficulties that Sierra Leonean students were facing when returning back to school. Fortunately,…
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Our trip to Resonate Connect
Wednesday night, a crack team of EducAid trustees, staff, donors, and volunteers travelled to Manchester Cathedral to meet over 100 businessmen and women from all…
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Political Instability in Sierra Leone
The West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP), a special consultant to the UN Economic and Social Council, has issued a warning in the wake of…
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The Challenge of Getting Students back to School
Schools are open, but attendance is low. There are several things affecting the cautious and slow return to school for Sierra Leone’s youngsters. Roeland Monasch,…
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