Author: Salone Creatives
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Accepting that I am a Woman in Tech
The first fight for my independence and to forge my own path came when it was time to make a decision as to which college I should attend. My parents expected me to pick the big school, VTech, where there was hope that I would major in Computer Science, graduate and make lots of money.…
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Broken Body-The Pregnancy Realities
When I was pregnant, I felt that my body was betraying me. I thought to myself, I have been through so much in my life, why couldn’t I just have an easy pregnancy? Once I arrived in the U.S. and started my OBgyn visits, it was like every week I was being told something was…
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The Night I Shook
As promised. The majority of the series will be published on my IG/FB page: Kamakwie Princess. After the first hospital visit (Read Shake Shake pt 1 & 2), I was still not better by noon of that very day and decided to go to the hospital I initially wanted to go to. While there they…
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Shake Shake Pt.2 -A Pregnancy Story in Sierra Leone
I’ve watched a lot of television shows and movies where the ambulance is zooming down the street, but I never experienced this as a sick person. I’ve ridden in an ambulance back in college to take a student to the hospital as a Resident Director, but this was a whole other experience. To paint the…
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Shake Shake Pt.1- A Little Experience as a Pregnant Woman in the Sierra Leone Health System
It was about 3am and I woke up with terrible pain on the left side of my stomach. I was by that time about 4 months pregnant and my thoughts instantly went to the baby growing inside me. That connection they say you get with your child and how instantaneous it can be, I felt…
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PART 3: Spotting signs of potential abuse, what to do about it and which children are at risk?
– Useful guidelines from UNICEF & U.N.H.C.R It is of great importance for teachers, school leaders, parents, health care professionals and social workers, all of us, to know and be aware of the behaviours and symptoms a child displays signs indicative of impending abuse or abuse that have. It is especially important for teachers to…
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Part 2: What makes a safe school and why our country needs more of them?
What safe schools look like Most of the questions regarding what needs to be done to make schools safer places have mostly already been figured out by many organizations such as the United Nations through its many agencies especially UNICEF and UNESCO to support governments and communities prevent and respond to abuse. When a school…
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How can Schools become safer and contribute to the fight against sexual abuse?
(for School Leaders, Teachers and other education stakeholders) Part 1: The School is likely the most influential organization in any society Abuse, in many shapes and forms, and has always been around. A few months ago, an elderly man (the man whose name and face rarely showed up on the images being spread over the…
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Almost every day, rape (Nothing new here)
Trigger Warning: Sexual abuse, rape, explicit content Recently a new case of rape of a minor in Sierra Leone has sent everyone in a frenzy. The images of the young girl flooded my newsfeed and it triggered me so badly that I went into hiding and deactivated both my profiles. I couldn’t do it. Almost…
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Educating in the Time of COVID19 in Sierra Leone
Recently, I put up a Facebook status up asking how countries like Sierra Leone, who do not have the same technological capabilities as the U.S. will handle education if things are to go wrong? Many people commented that this is a serious concern and should be addressed. …. This is a three-part blog post on…
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