If anyone had ever told me just six years ago that paradise was awaiting me in the West African country of Sierra Leone, I would have never believed them.
Lisa Schultz | Posted 05.21.2012
I've learned that in order to appreciate all that this country and its people have to offer, you have to learn how not to see things here through Western eyes.
Lisa Schultz | Posted 05.17.2012
On Friday night, I land in Sierra Leone and the first important thing I do will be to gather my son Tejan in my arms and hope that this is last time he will be greeting me, instead of accompanying me, to Africa.
Leila Chirayath Janah | Posted 05.12.2012
This Mother's Day, we are offering cards on our site to fund surgeries for women in need. In honor of mothers all over the world who work hard to take care of their families each day, Samahope enables anyone to give the gift of saving a woman's life.
Soraya Chemaly | Posted 05.10.2012
Rape, invisible and ubiquitous, is perceived as sexual and inevitable, and we tend to think of children and women as collaterally damaged during war. In truth, all over the world, girls and women are fully, bodily engaged in conflict.
AP | TOBY STERLING | Posted 05.03.2012
AMSTERDAM — Former Liberian president Charles Taylor deserves an 80-year sentence for the war crimes he was convicted of last week, including ai...
William F. Schulz | Posted 04.30.2012
I took more than a passing interest in the recent news that Charles Taylor had been convicted on 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity by the Special Court for Sierra Leone, meeting in The Hague.
Human Rights Watch | Posted 04.26.2012
(The Hague) – The conviction on April 26, 2012, of Charles Taylor, the former president of Liberia, for serious international crimes during Sier...
AP | Thomas Escritt and Anthony Deutsch | Posted 04.27.2012
* Taylor convicted by special court * Rights groups, victims welcome judgment * Sentencing expected next month (Adds...
Erin Levin | Posted 04.24.2012
Crazy, true good news: "We are proving that faith communities can work together to address a global problem like malaria."
Lisa Schultz | Posted 04.10.2012
The Peace Project is not just a social movement currently doing work in Sierra Leone, Africa -- it's a very personal project and I've seen (and experienced) in the most tangible and fantastic ways the power it has to transform lives, starting with my own.
Robert Koehler | Posted 04.05.2012
Human-rights activist John Caulker was convinced that within the broken traditions of his native country -- the culture of vital connection, of truth-telling and forgiveness -- lay the seeds of reconciliation. He knew that virtually everyone in Sierra Leone longed for reconciliation.
Paul Stoller | Posted 05.19.2012
So Africa is not a country and Africans don't speak "African." What about the most pernicious stereotype -- that in the face of ongoing civil war and unending famine, "Africans" are powerless and need our help?
CNN | Posted 03.16.2012
Sierra Leone and Liberia have some of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world, with 15-24 year olds accounting for 40 percent of such deaths...
Filippo Bozotti | Posted 03.20.2012
We have big plans for Tribewanted in 2012, a new location and the launch of a new platform and membership structure, which calls me back to Europe.
Posted 02.24.2012
By Chrysula Winegar For The Million Moms Challenge Late last year, Linda Christiano, a mother of two and grandmother of three, visited Sierra Leone...
Filippo Bozotti | Posted 11.27.2011
Would the community we built endure the ravaging thunderstorms and the rains that would likely beat down for 90 days straight? Would the local team look after our newly built community? Would the earth-domes be flooded?
HuffingtonPost.com | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 09.27.2011
Though he now leads a major nonprofit organization dedicated to serving malnourished children in one of the world's most impoverished regions, Dr. Mar...
John Graham | Posted 09.19.2011
Watching the sandbox antics in Washington over yet another polarizing issue -- the debt ceiling -- I feel sad and angry at my country's incompetence.
2morrowknight | Posted 08.28.2011
When the power of small donations connects with the needs and concerns of under-served populations, the results are often extraordinary.
Nikki Stone | Posted 08.06.2011
Quite honestly, I would be more scared to think of how unfulfilled my life would be if I hadn't taken the risk. Try asking yourself what you'd risk for a more fulfilled life.
Jonathan Lewis | Posted 07.17.2011
Why Maher is attending a fundraising dinner on May 25th in Los Angeles for Shine on Sierra Leone is a mystery. I will be there too. I'll have to ask him.
Madieu Williams | Posted 06.14.2011
I am not the first US citizen to build a school abroad, but I am vested emotionally in the school and futures of those children. Whenever I see those children, I see myself in them.
Madieu Williams | Posted 05.25.2011
I started to realize the needs of the communities in Sierra Leone, particularly something very close to my mother's heart -- youth education.
Filippo Bozotti | Posted 05.25.2011
After six months being in the thick of it, it is my opinion that Sierra Leone has huge potential to be an example to the world in green energy and agriculture.
Tiffany Persons | Posted 05.30.2012