Women of Amputee Village
The women from Amputee are strong, enterprising and quite determined to improve life in their community. They take the initiative…
Author Archives: Morag Keenan
News from Amputee Village
When we are unable to travel to Sierra Leone and visit our friends and projects it is exciting to receive…
Afri-Scot Community Shop
Afri-Scot is a small shop sitting at the junction at Amputee Village, Sierra Leone, West Africa. Its purpose is to…
ARET, COVID 19 and SIERRA LEONE
It was inevitable that Covid 19 would eventually hit Sierra Leone. Lockdown, health and safety measures, social distancing, emergency food…
Family Trip To Sierra Leone 2020
We, Chris, Rachel and myself, planned this trip in November 2019 not knowing that a global pandemic would be declared…
Shieldra
Shieldra, the school that started under a mango tree. Shieldra the project that grew wings and flew. Shieldra, the project…
At Adonkia Again
Arriving we were delighted to recognise faces from our previous visit. Abdulai and his team certainly went out of their…
Revisiting Rogbonko
Rogbonko, the place in the forest. This was my third visit, Rachel’s second and Chris’s first. We knew it would…
And it is hard not to cry
Not every story from Sierra Leone and ARET is happy. Sometimes it is hard not to sit down and put…
Shieldra School November 2019
Not the easiest project to embark on. Given that ARET is a new charity, a small charity with a very…