Eye - 08 January 2016
From hope in Sierra Leone to when 'nivver nowt 'appened'
Hope in Sierra Leone
A school in Rokel, Sierra Leone, has been affectionately dubbed ‘Sidcot School’ by its students.
Dorothy Crowther, of Keswick Meeting, told Eye that Sidcot School in Somerset has sent its Rokel ‘namesake’ books and school uniforms.
She explained: ‘Sierra Leone has been declared free of Ebola but the country is now coping with the aftermath. A couple of months ago much of the country was flooded during the monsoon rains.’
Hope House, the Ebola orphanage set up by Quakers in the Rokel area after forty children were left parentless following the outbreak, ‘was evacuated and they lost a week’s food supply but the children are now back in their accommodation’.
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