Goal today is to look at costings and with Joe and the detailed work of the team we have an excellent price for the direct cost of a house, the services will remain more challenging. Had dinner with a chap and learned a lot about diamond trading – absolutely fascinating and understanding how value ramps up as stones go form…

New day and great to welcome Katherine back after a month’s break in England. Our talks covered thinking about a school for a village of 344 – how many primary school children, what facilities, how many in a class, how many toilets, kitchen facilities – all what fits the culture and give the children the best chance. Met Lavern and…

Landed at 5am, breakfast catch up and then to meetings. Visited the Ministry of Works Housing and Infrastructure today and met its Permanent secretary and senior officials. We need a “letter of attestation from our “line” ministry. We first asked for this 18 months ago and despite well over 20 visits from our staff we keep being played with and…

This evening I am off to Sierra Leone again.  My hope is to meet people that can help fund our initiative to provide jobs and build homes for some of the worlds poorest slum dwellers.  We have redrawn our village map and looks like we can build at least 344 homes – that’s over 2,000 people given new opportunities.  The…