A day of travelling and meetings meant leaving Freetown early and heading east towards the town of Bo. The journey took four hours and was on both paved and unpaved roads, winding through tiny villages and expanses of lush vegetation.
Once again, people travelling on foot were dotted along the road every ten or twenty metres, some carrying bundles of charcoal on their heads and others straining under the weight of containers of water in yokes over their shoulders.
Just as the sun was starting to break through the haze that has been constantly sitting over the land (brought by the harmattan wind from the Sahara) we arrived into Sierra Leone’s second town.
Bo is the only town that has constant electricity, both day and night without people having to use generators. This town lies within the diamond mining region and has a very different feel to Freetown which is much more frenetic.
While in Bo we made a learning visit to a vocational skills training project called Movement for Assistance and Promotion of Rural Communities Development (MAPCO).
They work with small groups of young adults teaching them different skills including weaving, sewing, woodwork, mechanics and ironwork, then once they had completed their courses provided them with start-up kits and follow-up support.
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