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  • Day 67: A wonderful place to ride a bike

    I have spent the day riding on some of the best biking roads in the world (if you forget about the pot holes). The Guinea mountains are stuning amd mostly unspoilt.

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    Day 66: On my way home

    Yesterdays visit to the Sierra Leone Scouts was the last meeting I had planned for this trip. I will spend the next 3-4 weeks travelling home. I had a slightly later start this morning and after a half hour fighting through traffic amd markets I was back into…

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    Day 65: Sierra Leone Scouts

    My plan was to leave Makeni early to get to Freetown by midday. I had been told about a great camping spot on the beach. Just as I was about to leave the heavens opened and it was pouring with rain. It eased after a while so I…

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    Day 64: After Ebola

    My third day of visiting Street Child projects was to a village south of Makeni. I have done a seperate blog for that. In the evening Rashinda, Alfred (both work for Street Child) and I went out for a meal with some people who work for the International…

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    Pate-Bana Marank Village

    A pregnant lady came to the village of Pate -Bana Marank and fell ill. The baby aborted and the woman died. The villagers were sad but in a rural area such as this it was not uncommon. Then the women who had attended the sick lady also became…

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    Day 63: More Street Child Projects

    I went out with Sheku, another social worker today. We started in Yelisander village where he asked the teacher at the school to send the Ebola orphans down to the community hall to meet me. I started walking down the road with about 4 children. Another joined us,…