It's Getting There That's Hard!

The Seli River Writing Project operates Young Writers clubs only in rural areas now. Getting to schools in rural areas in Sierra Leone can be not only expensive, but alarming.

Here's a section of the road from Kabala to Dankawalie, that SELI managed to slide through at the end of October trying to get to, and back from, the writing club at Dankawalie Secondary School.  We were also trying to get to the community to talk with them about DSS's exciting new school library and what everyone's role will be.

Of course, we're not the only ones who use this road. Vehicles full of traders and their produce regularly get stuck trying to get to or from the weekly market in Dankawalie, either in sections like this, on makeshift "bridges," or up and down very uneven steep hills, or over and through large rock outcroppings. People get sick in villages along the road and need to be brought for care to Kabala. If you want to build something in the village, some of your building materials will need to be brought from Kabala. This is an agricultural area, and everyone would like to send crops to urban areas to sell--this is the only road going there. Children walk this road regularly, trying to get to schools. The many people who want to trade in Kono to the southeast, have to travel west along this road to Kabala and take another circuitous route around to Kono. How we all wish something could be done about THIS ROAD!