Happy New Year, everyone! SELI would like to thank
each and every individual person who has contributed to its efforts in the past
year. We are so indebted to you!
Ebola has hampered our activities in the past six
months—and this is only an understatement of what being out of school for an
entire school year has done to a whole nation of students. We live every minute
of every day hoping that the Ebola infection rate will subside soon and desist
from taking its terrible toll in Sierra Leone.
SELI has begun a new Seli River Writing Project
called Writing Back. Its purpose is
to restart the writing activity of as many junior and senior secondary members
of SELI’s Young Writers clubs as we can during the Ebola outbreak
in West Africa. Because schools are closed, the conditions under which these
clubs normally operate—the school settings, the workshop-style meetings, the
box of supplies, and each person’s files of ongoing work—are currently
unavailable. Yet we’ll be writing to each other, and writing back. Watch
the blog, and we’ll be giving you more information as it evolves!
