Infection Prevention and Control Training

By: Renée Zandvliet, Kingtom, Freetown, Sierra Leone, October 2014

It is a hot and sweaty Friday afternoon in Kingtom, a community in the centre of Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone. Some 20 health workers have gathered in the…

Saffie at the Command Center

Renée Zandvliet, Programme Quality Manager, October 2014

Saffie Morovia is a Health Project Officer attached to Concern Sierra Leone’s Freetown WASH project. Freetown WASH is an INGO consortium project aimed at improving water, sanitation and hygiene…

Ebola Training for CHWs

Ebola in Sierra Leone

Ambulance Training in Magburaka

By: Renée Zandvliet, Programme Quality Manager, October 2014

“OK, you have just received a call to pick up a suspected Ebola patient, an elderly woman who is vomiting and clearly very sick. What do you do?”

Working for Humanity

By: Kieran McConville; Published in Huffington Post Nov. 5, 2014

The Bangura Family

By Kieran McConville, Makargbo, Tonkolili, Sierra Leona, November 6, 2014

Mabinty Bangura sits outside her family home in the early morning sun, three-month-old Isatu in her lap and three-year-old Obai by her side. At eight years old, she is now looking after her…

Dr. Alieu Kargbo
By: Kieran McConville, Magburaka, Tonkolili, Sierra Leone, Nov. 5th, 2014

Kenema is the third largest city in Sierra Leone. Located about 185 miles southeast of the capitol Freetown, it is the biggest city in the east where the Ebola outbreak has occurred. Sadly, it is also home to…

Ebola in Sierra Leone

An outbreak of the Ebola virus disease (EVD) was initially identified in Guinea in March and has spread to Liberia…

Reverend Augustine Connison

By: Kieran McConville, Kingtom, Freetown, Sierra Leone, November 7, 2014