Telephone Number

My Sierra Leone mobile has been lost/ stolen. My new number is: +232 76 53 97 04

Remember - anything you want to send me for Christmas needs to be in the Luton office by Wednesday....!!!!

St George Foundation

Rebuilding accomodation for these children will be our Primary project starting next week. The buildings that you see were demolished in the war but can reasonably easily and cheaply be rebuilt to provide appropriate accomodation. These children were street kids. The foundation rehabilitates them for about a year whilst tracing their families and then rehomes them while still continuing to pay their school fees. The children were either orphaned because of the war or they were child soldiers - whichever, they have been living on the streets and therefore their behaviour is not appropriate for their families to want them back. While the children are resident with the project they learn skills that will become the basis for their re-homing as part of a family. The programme offers them counselling and psychological and spiritual support as well as physical management, schooling and healthcare. The children really welcome us when we go to visit - they are very joyful and Steve always seemed to be buried under a pile of them - spot the purple hat!!

Waterloo Hospital

Dr Elmer and his wife Anjelica are Peruvian missionaries who have been working here in SL for 6 years. He runs the Waterloo hospital and is the only Dr so his work is truely 24/7 as he is always on call. Anjelica is a pharmacist and also works there. They live a 1 hour drive from the hospital and the road is really just a mountain track which can be really hazardous in the severe rains. Our first team (weren't they good looking?) completed the painting and fencing for this accomodation block at the hospital. This will enable Elmer to host visiting doctors who can run the hospital when he in on leave or can support him at other times too. The kitchen and final fittings should be in place this week.

arrived safely/ nomads

This is a picture of Rachael and Daniel - my fellow team mates. We arrived safely and it is SO HOT and humid. We spent a few days in the 5:10 hotel - this is where the teams will be staying when they get here. This is a hotel in African standards - we had electricity (at night) and water (sometimes)!! - the breakfast was nothing to write home about so I won't. We then moved to the very nice house of Dr Elmer and his wife (more about them another day)- we have electricity at night and cold water all the time. We were there just a week as we could not be on the west side of town when the team arrived so on Friday 24th we went back to the 5:10. Unfortunately though the plan was to move into our own house whne the team went back to the UK on 4th Dec it is currently still being built. So we moved to the small house on the King George Coronation Home for the elderly site which usually works as the team house for eating and socialising. We will need to move from here before the next team arrive on 18th as otherwise they will hve no-where to go. We could go back to the 5:10 but we are all praying tat our house will be ready by then as we are all fed up with moving every few days. The builders tell us that things will happen to the house "tomorrow" but also tell us that in Africa "tomorrow nover comes"!!