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Courage and Hope in Africa
Sierra Leone, the West African nation of five million people, has been the scene of a brutal civil war for most of the 1990s. An accord signed last year has yielded an uneasy truce; with it has come an opportunity to restore some measure of stability to the strife-torn country, the Toronto Star (July 6, 2001) reported.
With hundreds of thousands of displaced people now starting to return to their homes, UNICEF's Sierra Leone representative JoAnna Van Gerpen (MBA '81) explained, "We need to have schools and health facilities. Both were damaged or destroyed during the war." Indeed, with much of the country's economy and infrastructure in shambles and with its enormous social problems (Sierra Leone has the highest infant mortality rate in the world), Van Gerpen is seeking aid for UNICEF from Western governments and international development agencies.
Van Gerpen monitoring a vaccination campaign.
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