Student Scheme recipient Shauna Bowers received funding to travel to Sierra Leone and examine life on the ground there a year on from the devastating mudslide that hit the capital city of Freetown in August 2017. Shauna’s work was published on TheJournal.ie. In the first of her pieces, which can be read here, Shauna meets people who […]
Shauna Bowers: walking along Lumley beach, Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Student Scheme recipient Shauna Bowers was funded to travel to Sierra Leone and report on the aftermath of a massive mudslide that hit the capital of Sierra Leone in 2017. In the second of two blog posts from her trip, Shauna offers further insight into her experience of the Sierra Leone capital. You can read […]
Shauna Bowers: arriving in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Student Scheme recipient Shauna Bowers was funded to travel to Sierra Leone and report on the aftermath of a massive mudslide that hit the capital of Sierra Leone in 2017. In the first of two blog posts from her trip, Shauna sets the scene as she arrives in the Sierra Leone capital. Stepping […]
The aftermath of the 2017 Sierra Leone mudslide
Student Scheme recipient Shauna Bowers received funding to travel to Sierra Leone and examine life on the ground there a year on from the devastating mudslide that hit the capital city of Freetown in August 2017, killing over 1,100 people and destroying hundreds of buildings. Shauna’s work was published on TheJournal.ie. In the first of […]
