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Voices of hope from Sierra Leone

On our recent Free For All trip to Sierra Leone we took our MP3 recorders with us and interviewed Mohammed a YMCA volunteer who fled to Freetown during the civil war, children from our Free For All performance, Verity a CMS Missionary doing health work  as a physio and Zoe from the team who meets family from Sierra Leone she never knew she had. We also have footage of a trip to King Jimmy's market, a historical site where slaves were loaded on to ships 200 years ago. Check out Voices from Sierra Leone on tikhtak's youtube. You can also hear them featured on our trax16 for January. In this picture I am interviewing Mohammed, the YMCA volunteer while Anita interviews Verity. The interviews were not all carried out on the beach!

Latest Videos from Free For All, Sierra leone trip

I am systematically making clips of the highlights of our Free For All trip to Sierra Leone. You can see them by clicking directly on the pictures in the side bar and they will play in their own little window. Check out the most recent ones of Anita being lost and found in Freetown and our road trip to Moyamaba. I will also be sharing about the experience at the connect service at Holy Trinity, Clapham on Sunday evening.

King Jimmy's Market

Perhaps one of the highlights of our time in Sierra leone was being shown around King Jimmy's Market in Freetown. It is situated on one of the best natural harbors in western Africa and hence the reason why it led to the city’s founding as a refuge for freed slaves in 1787. Now it is a functioning market but also situated in a very deprived part of town. Anita, Mike and Myself were taken on an inpromptu tour by a few of the traders from another market nearby. Mike bravely snapped the pictures and you can see them on my flickr Otherwise check out this video, which gives a tour around the market with some of the history by local commentators. Also see all our pics of the Free For All project and our time in Sierra leone. Here is a picture of Nash one of our guides. As we travelled through the area we picked up more and more guides along the way, but we kept close to our trusted market guides.