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Latrines and Micro-Loans

Here are a couple photos and updates on some of our most recent projects:

• Building toilets and bathing areas in the Grafton war-wounded and polio communities. There was a great need for sanitary toilet facilities in these communities. In some areas, their latrines have been over-full, and people have resorted to relieving themselves in drainage ditches that flow throughout the camp.
  

• Micro-Business Loans. We've distributed several loans to individuals and families who submitted proposals for small businesss. Some of these businesses include things like selling rice or kerosene, weaving and dying cloth, etc.
  

A woman selling palm oil and rice.

Another woman who now sells brooms.

This amputee family is selling a variety of market goods.

A rice sales-woman

A gravel business.

Child Mortality Highest in Sierra Leone

Under-5 death rate reduced by 23 percent worldwide since 1990
The Associated Press
updated 11:38 a.m. ET, Tues., Jan. 22, 2008

GENEVA - A newborn in Sierra Leone has the lowest chance in the world of surviving until age 5, and the prospects are almost as bad for children in Angola and Afghanistan, according to a U.N. report released Tuesday.

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