By Ibrahim Moigua | Project Manager
The Mudslide tragedy that took place on the 14th of August, 2017 in Regent village happened to be the biggest mudslide in the history of Sierra Leone similar to another that happened in 1945 with ten houses swept away in that community. The British colony by then relocated and banned dwelling in that area. Overpopulation has caused people to go back to that prohibited, unsafe community and built houses. Eventually, this catastrophe struck once again and left more than 600 lives missing and 500 corpses been buried in the waterloo cemetery, where the Ebola corpses were buried in 2014. Most of those missing are believed to be burried under the mud or been swept away by the flooding.
AID Sierra Leone continues to give support to victims and survivors in various ways, including the provision of assorted food and non-food items, counseling, business development mentoring and advocacy.
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