Posts Tagged ‘Sierra Leone’

Competition entry – StopTB Photography Award

Competition entry - StopTB Photography Award

I’ve just sent off an entry to a competition run by the StopTB Partnership – take a look at the gallery below to see my entry.  The entries have to be about public health in some way, so I put together a selection of images showing the work done by British nurse Becky Cridford in [...]


Bunce Island, Sierra Leone…

Bunce Island, Sierra Leone...

Whilst in Sierra Leone in early October, I took the opportunity to visit Bunce Island, just outside Freetown in the Sierra Leone River.  Despite being relatively unknown to the outside world, the island is one of the most significant slave-trade forts in West Africa for African Americans today.  Up until 1807, when the British government [...]


Sierra Leone…

Sierra Leone...

I am currently in Freetown, Sierra Leone, one week into a trip covering Freetown, across to Zambia and Madagascar, and then on to Peru. I’ve been working with two different charities here – Planting Promise, a charity that develops agricultural and other projects and uses the profits to fund schools; and the Welbodi Partnership, an [...]