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…

On Friday 5 June, we obtained keys to our first charity shop in Luton.  The culmination of much hard work and planning of our staff.  Heather Baker has joined us as our shop manager and we are now putting all the fixtures together and there is a literal mountain of stock to sort. Our House group came to help last…

For many years I have worked with the Polio Men in Kissy.  I first met them living in their disused abattoir with 100 people and 1 toilet with an open sewer was dreadful.  We have seen that disability need not be a barrier to perseverance. We worked with them to obtain land and now they have developed a range of businesses…