Hello there! Today is Thursday, August 10th, 2023. This was the Ukweli 2023 team’s fourth full day in Sierra Leone. A trend of the last two days has been cooler temperatures at nighttime and early morning. Wake-ups seem to be getting colder and colder. This never...

Howdy! Today is Wednesday, August 9th, 2023. This was the Ukweli 2023 team’s third full day in Sierra Leone. It was yet another day waiting for Institutional Review Board approval for our team’s cervical cancer research, but we are plugging along!  Sierra Leone...

Hi! Today is Tuesday, August 8th, 2023. This was the Ukweli 2023 team’s second full day in Sierra Leone.  The morning began earlier for every team; we woke up at 7:30am, grabbed our breakfast, and headed over to the World Hope International office in Makeni. Our...

Hello, and welcome to our blog! Today is Monday, August 7th, 2023. This was the Ukweli 2023 team’s first full day in Sierra Leone, along with the rest of the Global Social Impact Fellowship groups. Our team members embarking on the trip are Reeza Chaulagain, Brooke...

Today was similar to yesterday in that it was mainly transcribing. Grace, Kayla, and Noah met Alieu at World Hope and began the transcription process. Noah and Kayla rotated with each other while Grace worked on a document regarding finances. Noah and Grace had spoken...

Noah Grace and Alieu went into the community  and completed an additional set of 18 interviews to make up for the ones lost yesterday to the broken recorder. This concluded the interview process and now The rest of the team stayed at World Hope with Wara and did a...

This week has been highly educational and productive for the Ukweli team. The team members went into both rural and urban communities within Makeni and were grateful enough to have sit down interviews with around 200 women. The women of the communities shared their...

Grace, Samara, Matt, and Noah woke up early to meet with their translators, Wara and Allieu, who would help the team conduct interviews today. They set the goal of 50 interviews for the afternoon after which the rest of the day would be spent transcribing the...

Today we began conducting interviews for Cervical Cancer Research. Samara, Matt, Noah, and Grace arrived at the World Hope International Makeni Field Office and met with the translator, Suiluman. The consent form, demographic survey, and interview guide was discussed...

  Today, Samara and Matt went to Panlap Community Health Center. There was a great turnout of women from the local community to be screened. This was the largest group they had seen. Some women waited almost an hour to be screened. During each screening, Nurse...