Two local schools, Silsoe Lower and Stopsley High School, are moving to new premises in the new year.  Home Leone has been given permission to strip the old schools and send doors, toilets, electrics, plumbing and consumables in containers. This will help the Education of those moving to Destiny village and who are currently living in Sierra Leone’s horrendous slums….

I have just visited where so many people have lost their homes in a fire,  The density of the tin body houses is remarkable and the reason so many are left homeless.  Prince told me how he slept on the street for the night and they simply don’t know what to do. The Government representatives had been to listen to…

Last night a horrific fire wiped out 1,000 family “homes” in the slums of Freetown.  The devastation is truly shocking.  It brings into sharp focus what we have been doing with a long term plan to enable such people to exit the dangers of such dreadful habitation. Do Pray with us for the country and community leaders, as they determine…

Rachel, Bob (one of our trustees) and I met with Sierra Leone’s Vice President and Head of the Office for National Security to discuss urban regeneration and our first pilot village currently under construction. It was such an encouraging time to meet someone with a heart for the poorest in his nation.  He expressed his thanks to us, and all…

So, exciting times as we head back to Sierra Leone.  My daughter Natasha, Joe and Sarah headed off to join Rachel, Moses and the team.  Getting ready had its challenges with the SL High Commission losing some passports and still one is lost as we get on the plane. Air Maroc – plane is late leaving as they say there…