Sierra Leone: Moving Forward After Ebola

Electric substation outside of Freetown, Currently, less than 10 percent of Sierra Leone's national population has access to electricity. (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. (Photo courtesy NRECA International)

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)