Life-changing aid in one of the world’s worst slums
Just west of the centre of Sierra Leone's capital Freetown a filthy river, known as the Crocodile, works its way into the sea. Shanties constructed from corrugated zinc line the banks. Children wade in the water alongside wallowing pigs and small islets of rubbish. Some crouch to defecate in the stream or on the waterfront flats beyond the shanties where accumulated trash is slowing firming into banks of new land. Read the full story
