HER BODY, HER RIGHT: THE AFRICAN WAR AGAINST FGM
Medium Technology Section
MAY 20, 2025
” — Survivor from Sierra Leone Continue reading on Medium “I screamed, but no one came. My mother wept as they held me down. I was only nine.”
Medium Technology Section
MAY 20, 2025
” — Survivor from Sierra Leone Continue reading on Medium “I screamed, but no one came. My mother wept as they held me down. I was only nine.”
Nonprofit Tech for Good
NOVEMBER 7, 2020
One such example involves the story of Fanta, a woman who managed her at-risk pregnancy and delivered a healthy baby with PIH’s help in Sierra Leone. The post featured an unposed, documentary-style photo and copy that reads like a news hook, highlighting the danger of giving birth in Sierra Leone.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MAY 26, 2004
Patrick Ball is here working on the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission data analysis. I have had several great conversations about the state of adaptive technology for the African blind, and am getting good ideas for how we can help over the next few years. I also have been meeting with human rights groups.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 10, 2004
We have multiple projects going right now in Sierra Leone. Times have changed dramatically. Cybercafes are found in quite poor areas. And, of course, there are many human rights and social justice issues in Africa. Our big news is major support for more work by Benetech in Africa, thanks to the U.S. Department of State.
The Next Web
FEBRUARY 2, 2016
Riddle me this: Why has Botswana, a landlocked country in the south of Africa, become one of the fastest-growing countries in the world, while other African nations — Zimbabwe, the Congo and Sierra Leone among them — remain caught in a miasma of violence and poverty? You might chalk it… This story continues at The Next Web.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 18, 2022
These are markets where it has distributors or dealers; 13 of them are in sub-Saharan Africa: Benin, Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Madagascar, Mozambique, Rwanda, Senegal and Sierra Leone.
Have Fun - Do Good
DECEMBER 29, 2006
The WFP provided food aid from 1991-2002 during the civil war in Sierra Leone. On the WFP site you can: * Read about "Blood, Diamonds and Hunger" and the WFP's work in Sierra Leone. Read an interview with Paul Arè s , the former WFP regional manager for West Africa, about his experience in Sierra Leone in the 1990s.
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