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Safety Issues In Sierra Leone – Questions And Answers
November 11th, 2010 | 
Author: I received an email from a visitor to this site (Kim Riise hope you don’t mind my mentioning your name) who wishes to visit and stay in Sierra Leone for a while, rather than just send her an email response, I thought I would post here for the benefit of others who wish to come too.
Queston: Is it generally safe?
Safe? sure safer than many other countries I’ve been to, that includes London and Ghana for that matter. So long as you don’t get mixed up in the wrong crowd. Here, women walk the streets at night – no problem. People look after each other round here.
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Wilkinson Road Being Rebuilt!
Plenty of excitement in the air as all over the country in Sierra Leone, new roads are being constructed and old ones rebuilt and widened. It’s been about a month now
since the tractors made appearance on Wilkinson Road – one or the 2 main arteries from the West of Freetown into town centre.
The plan is to have dual carriage way on both sides which has meant a lot of pain and adjustment by those conducting business and living there.
All properties with walls or buildings encroaching the road have been demolished which means people have lost their walls and worse still their land. Small consolation though- I heard
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8 Ways In Which My Life Is Easier In Sierra Leone
Just to let you know ….here are some of the ways in which my life is much easier here in Sierra Leone.
#1. Better and cheaper childcare - This ONE is one of the main benefits! In England, we had more less no family (no grandma of any sorts) available to help us with the children. And we dared not hire a childminder or such like because of the prevalence of paedophilia. So apart from the few hours a day they spent at school, we were their main stay which meant, we were not able to go out as often as we wanted, in fact rarely. But now, we have family and trusted hired help who can look after the children so we can go out a bit more often.
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