“Most elderly people in Africa live in their communities, but in Sierra Leone so many young people died and so many communities were destroyed that what started as a poor house in eastern Freetown has evolved to become the King George Home for the Aged,” Glenna Gordon observes. [1]
Sierra Leone: Aging Alone
· Written by Ndesanjo Macha
Categories: Sub-Saharan Africa, Sierra Leone, Humanitarian Response, War & Conflict