Mark, our architect arrived and the team is complete.  Having visited some of the slums and met some resilient people we turned to the layout of 20 acres of land.  Looking at the house designs, by listening to what people want how do you build for this culture, a community that works.  The trade offs of aspirations and value for…

As Gibreal looks into his fathers ruined cinema, the sense of desperation and loss is palpable.  His Dad. Tommy, showed us his house next door that had been flooded to the nearly the roof.  He shared how he had lost his daughter thinking she was dead for 2 days before he found her.  The 800,000 leones (£100) he had spent…

Sierra Leone Floods sweep children away to their death In the last 48 hours torrential rain and floods have swept away children and their homes in Sierra Leone. Bodies are still being found. As if Ebola wasn’t hard enough to deal with, its people face a fresh challenge that brings some of the world’s poorest people to their knees. Katherine…

Today is a significant.  It is the first anniversary since Dave Hall set off on his amazing run from John O’Groats to Lands End and raised over £100,000 to help people out of Sierra Leone’s truly dreadful slums.  It was a damp and tense day – nearly 1,000 miles lay ahead, how would he feel, would he stay fit as…

We were thrilled that Luton MP Gavin Shuker, who is also a shadow minister in overseas development kindly took time from his busy schedule to officially open the first Home Leone charity shop in Luton. Gavin said “This problem [of social housing in Sierra Leone] is too important for us to ignore and I am thrilled to see a grassroots organisation…