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Really good news this time
At long last! Thanks to the kind efforts of a talented lawyer by the name of Paul Chiy, who took up Jimiyke’s case, his application…
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24/7 electricity – too good to be true?
EducAid at night with it’s new electricity provision. I met someone from World Bank in June. I was simultaneously outraged at the impunity with which,…
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Difficult choices
Sitting up in their bench beds.3 years ago or so, we realised that the one room in Alhassan’s mum’s bungalow which was for the live-in…
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EducAid on the BBC
Some of our youngsters have the most harrowing tales from the war. A few of them interviewed each other as part of the BBC ‘Hunger…
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Issa settling in
A month or so ago, Issa Fowai, our second student to achieve international scholarship, set off across the world to study engineering in China. This…
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Working it out at 4 years old
Today, the family held the 40 days’ ceremony for Alhassan. Lots of money was spent on lots of food and lots of people came and…
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More memorials
The differences in cultures is nowhere easier to see, between Europe and Africa, than in the bereavement process. To my mind a significant contributor to…
Read MoreTertiary difficulties
The problems at the tertiary institutions continue apace but we still somehow or other need to be fighting that while continuing to push to get…
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Mike in Berlin
More goodwill and support from outside Sierra Leone. While the Paris to Brussels cyclists were training and foraging for funds to complete their bike ride,…
Read MoreIs it progress or not?
The Human Development Reports [Annual reports prepared by the United Nations http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_2009_EN_Complete.pdf] for 2009 are out. Last year, Sierra Leone was 179th out of 179…
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