Author: Salone Creatives
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Educating in the time of COVID19 in Sierra Leone Pt. 3
Written by: Janice Williams with Contributions by Alusine Barrie Part 2 | Part 1 The next best option is television. According to the BBC Media Action research again, there is a growing viewership of television. Television stations can air educational content: this happened during Ebola, but it will be about getting the highest possible quality…
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Educating in the time of COVID19-Sierra Leone Pt. 2
Written by: Janice Williams Contributions by: Alusine Barrie Part 1 Looking at internet usage, we are seeing a significant growth for Sierra Leone, but we are still a long way behind the rest of the world according to these statistics from Internet World Statistics. According to GeoPoll: more than 90% of the population in [Sub-saharan…
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Educating in the Time of COVID19 in Sierra Leone
Written by: Janice Williams (Founder/Executive Director Sudu & Co-founder, EduGo) Contributions by: Alusine Barrie (EduGo Co-founder and Grow Salone Lead Trainer) The question is: How Can Sierra Leone (& similar countries) handle education during this pandemic and other emergency situations? Recently, I put up a Facebook status up asking how countries like Sierra Leone, who…
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Peace Corps is evacuating all volunteers all over the world & Some thoughts on Peace Corps
So I wrote this on my Medium Page. See there for the full write up… I am a returned Peace Corps volunteer that served in Niger and Guinea from 2010 to 2012. I am very familiar with evacuations because all 99 volunteers in Peace Corps Niger were evacuated in January 2011 and the program never…
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Can diaspora help significantly without visiting or being white savior-ish? How?
I am baaaccckk. So, I know I promised some people that I will write about what they submitted I should write about, but December was busy and January (as that meme said) was a hell of a year, because I won’t even say month. Wooo!!! Chile!!! Ok So, somebody sent me this last year to…
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2019: The Year of Detour and Return
So, as I do every year, this is my year in review blogpost. Check out last year’s: Making my dreams come true For one thing, I didn’t think I’d be going into 2020 with this blog, but I do have several blog posts that I owe people, so here goes Voice of the Salone Diaspora…
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Sexual violence is not just physical violence
Trigger warning: rape, sexual abuse, graphic descriptions of sexual encounters. From November 25, 16 days of activism officially kicked off , an international campaign to end violence against women. On this last day, I just want to talk about one issue: sexual abuse. It is something that I have blogged about many times, but I…
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Right to contraception in Sierra Leone (Africa)
So, someone sent me a message with a link to a video: I’d really like to know your take. A video of a woman who is pro-life arguing that contraception is what the west thinks African women need but not the solution I watched the video and it honestly gave me a headache. The…
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Maybe I have my sh*t a little together – Mental Health post Pt. 2
The second time I went to see someone regularly, was my first semester at Harvard in 2017. I think I spoke about this before, but I had enrolled in a childhood trauma class because I was working on SUDU and I felt that I needed to take something like that to really learn some of…
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My response to how to deal with mental health here? I don’t got my sh*t together Pt.1
A friend of mine asked me to write a blog post about mental health and I’ve gone back and forth about what exactly to write. Should I just share resources as I’ve done before? Should I share my own experiences dealing with my mental health? I was at a loss because I strive to be…
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