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Our trip to Sierra Leone

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Penn State Engineers Without Borders :

Penn State Engineers Without Borders Assessment Trip Sierra Leone July 2010

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Sierra Leone is the third poorest country in the world

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Our last taste of civilization at Heathrow Airport

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After 20 hours in the air, we spent 45 anxious minutes aboard the water taxi to Freetown

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We are working with the local EWB chapter, headed by Mohamed Khalil

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Each day we piled into two taxis, for a 10 mile trip over unpaved roads

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We were not prepared for the view along the way

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The road to the village was too rough for the taxi, so we walked the last mile

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Our project is to provide the Covenant Preparatory School with a latrine and drinking water supply

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It is a one-room schoolhouse, for 60 students, 4 grades are all taught simultaneously

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A view of the school from up the hill

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Each morning, the children greeted us by singing hymns

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Kindergarten and Nursery school

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The upper grades, each with their own chalk board

Meet Idrisa. His family is too poor to send him to school, but he wants to go. :

Meet Idrisa. His family is too poor to send him to school, but he wants to go.

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It was the middle of the rainy season

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The roof leaks

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This is their “toilet”

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Drinking water source, just downstream of the “toilet”

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Rasta Kumara, the only one of 8 children that his family can afford to send to school, the rest have to work

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Sierra Leone is a land of incredible natural beauty and great contradictions, such as tin shacks next to mansions

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Meeting with the elders of the village

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While the women and children look on from the background

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Pastor Martin, the school master, addresses the villagers

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The future site of Pastor Martin’s dream - a new school building

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The local laundry

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The man with the striped shirt has 4 wives, shown here with wife #2

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Most of the village men work in the granite quarry, hammering large rocks into smaller rocks

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The homes of the wealthy are protected by walls and razor wire

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The civil war ended 10 years ago, and the government is struggling to rebuild infrastructure

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Sewer, water supply and road

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“Midnight” water taps from the municipal supply

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A typical neighborhood outside of Freetown

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The chaos of Freetown

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Street vendors are everywhere, trying to eke out a living

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Bargaining with a vendor

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They won’t take no for an answer

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Fishermen sail over the horizon in large open canoes, with only oars and sails for power