I have just received some statistics from the hospital in Freetown where the bodies are being collected. Victim patients: Male = 18, Female = 27, Death: Male = 111, Female = 98, Children = 122 Total death = 331( as of 16/08/2017) 5:00 p.m 108 dismembered body parts were buried on 15/08/2017                 60 unidentified is…

It is hard to imagine the depths of the tragedy unfolding in Sierra Leone.  As I listen to our staff of the first hand stories, the thousands homeless and hundreds dead it is just horrid. As you know, I believe God gave me a clear vision of a slum solution for Sierra Leone and we have worked hard towards that…

After over 30 years of working in the tropics, Malaria visited me last week.  The Southampton hospital tropical medical staff were wonderful and after finding I had the “good” malaria treated and cured my illness.  Now just a bit fatigued but doing well so many thanks for the prayers and good wishes sent, as Susan shared it on Facebook. It…

You meet some amazing people in this line of work. Charlie Christensen stopped by for a couple of nights at Destiny Village.  Charlie has been walking from Denmark to Tanzania, in a roundabout way and after 2 years on the road has reached Sierra Leone.  He expects to be walking for another 2 years! Charlie had a trolley he pushes…

Been an amazing week in Sierra Leone so making some progress: Appointed Lyndon Johnson as our SL Communications Director – he is an outstanding addition to our team. UNDP auditors Pricewaterhousecoopers, came to audit us.  They have 3 days to study us and the auditor said this was the first time they found an NGO to sign off in one…

A few weeks back some people came and started to clear a parcel of land that sat within our territory.  They were “land grabbers” as known in these parts.  At the bottom of our land the documents show a sort of marsh area, but the reality is the land is just fine. After much negotiation involving the original land owner…