Twenty-one years ago, just before my first trip to Rwanda, I attended a lecture on the Rwandan Genocide at London’s Imperial War Museum. One of the speakers explained that the men responsible for gang raping Rwandan women were being given food and anti-retroviral medication in jail by aid agencies. Meanwhile, the women they had raped […]

It can be annoying to be told you are over-thinking an issue. We hear the expression often in our projects in Africa, but it has a different meaning. Survivors of conflict who are troubled by horrific flashbacks tells us they “think too much.” Not all societies have the same familiarity with mental health that people in the […]

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” Victor Hugo. In recent times Sierra Leone has suffered a triple whammy of challenges: eleven years of civil war, Ebola and then Covid. On top of this, the west African nation regularly features on the list of the ten poorest countries in the world. […]