Sierra Leone 2023

Upon waking up and making our way to the main meeting room of the hotel, we were surprised to see several wooden statues, bracelets, and other purchasable souvenirs laid out on the table near the edge of the room. A local was eagerly selling the trinkets to us and the other students staying at the […]

After breakfast, the team arrived and World Hope prepared for our meeting with the Vice Chancellor of the University of Makeni, Prof. Joseph Sesay, and Prof. Mehta. We made some final edits to our slide before driving off with Prof. Mehta and Prof. Joseph.        Arriving at the Yoni campus at University of […]

This morning we had plans to visit Holy Spirit Hospital with the Mothers of Sierra Leone team. Their P.I. has been very gracious in sharing his contacts with us and serving as our point of introduction. As his team set up their equipment, he led us to the matron’s office, where we, unfortunately, learned that […]

After breakfast, we quickly made our way to World Hope since we were tagging along with the Mothers of Sierra Leone team to Gladys Koroma Memorial Hospital. It was a bumpy ride over, but thankfully everyone made it there in one piece. The hospital was in the middle of a small village, and many onlookers […]

This morning we met with Sulaiman, our translator, and we worked on recording and translating our course videos from English to Krio so that we can make them more accessible to the community. We also got the quiz questions translated and worked on updating the videos with our refined content. We will continue working to […]

After a long flight, we finally arrived in Freetown, Sierra Leone on August 6th at around 6 pm. Fortunately, all of our luggage was waiting for us when we arrived at the international airport in Freetown. After a short time spent gathering our belongings and finding Khanjan and Kelley outside, we piled onto the bus […]