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    Dora’s Story

    Dora is a grandmother who is believed to be 102 years old. She looks after her four grandchildren aged 5, 11, 12 and 14 because their parents died from Ebola. She is at a time of her life when her children should be caring for her,  instead she…

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    Benjamin’s Story

    Benjamin is a normal 8 year old boy who lives in Sierra Leone, Africa. What makes Benjamin special is that he is the single survivor of a family of 14. Since Sepember 2014 Ebola has claimed his mum, his dad, his sister, aunts, uncles and cousins. It is…

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    Day 63: Visiting Street Child Projects

    Today I followed Lamin, a Street Child voluntary social worker to visit some of his cases. I have heard some very sad and harrowing tales of sowing, loss, and sadness.

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    Day 62: Arrival at Street Child

    After a good night’s sleep at Kabba crossing. James and his son (the headmaster) took me back up to the school. They teach 283 children in a tiny building so mostly use outside under mango trees as classes. This is fine at the moment but in 3 weeks…

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    Day 61: Swimming with the bike

    Today was about great bike riding on mountain roads and on jungle tracks, falling off a ferry into a river, seeing fantastic wildlife, breakdowns and hospitality in a remote jungle village. It is going to be a long blog. ..

  • Day 60: Great biking country

    Distance 350km Today has been a great bike riding experience it started with some straight forward good straight tarmac for high speed and burning kilometers. Then came some of the worst roads imaginable where the tarmac was either pot holed or missing for several kilometers at a time.…