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Sierra Leone: Moving Forward After Ebola

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Sierra Leone: Moving Forward After Ebola
Market in Freetown. (Photo courtesy NRECA International)
Market in Freetown. (Photo courtesy NRECA International)
Market in Freetown. (Photo courtesy NRECA International)
A woman selling spices at a market in Freetown. (Photo courtesy NRECA International)
Freetown, the capital and largest city in Sierra Leone, from above. (Photo courtesy NRECA International)
Roads in Freetown. (Photo courtesy NRECA International)
Market in Freetown. (Photo courtesy NRECA International)
Children with stacks of coal in Freetown. Over 1 billion people in the world live without access to electricity, and this often means children must spend their time collecting water and fuel for fire rather than in school. Additionally, smoke from cooking fires kills 4.3 million people a year, mainly women and children...
NRECA International employees Rakibul Islam and Guillermo Layerenza in Freetown. (Photo courtesy NRECA International)
A woman balances apples on her head in the markets of Freetown. (Photo courtesy NRECA International)
PublishedNovember 29, 2016

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