by VivienneWalt | Sep 18, 2008 | Africa, Articles
By Vivienne Walt ~ FREETOWN In a hospital ward in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, Fatmata Conteh, 26, lay on a bed, having just given birth to her second child. She had started bleeding from a tear in her cervix, the blood forming a pool on the floor below....
by VivienneWalt | Sep 18, 2008 | Africa, Videos
VIDEO REPORT: In Freetown, Sierra Leone, I witness a young mother giving birth and then dying. The family is left to make sense of her death, and figure out how to raise the baby. Recent Posts FORTUNE MAGAZINE: Iran’s Startup Spring OPC: Europe Under Attack: How Paris...
by VivienneWalt | Dec 6, 2006 | Africa, Articles, Featured Article
By Vivienne Walt ~ SIERRA LEONE Sahr Amara is stooped low, knee-deep in a muddy river, in the fifth hour of his workday. As he has each day for the past week, the 18-year-old will earn a stipend of only 7 cents, enough to buy himself a bowl of porridge to see him...
