Everyone she knew had disappeared. She died shortly after she delivery. The community health worker adopted her son. During this past year much of what was rebuilt back then has been destroyed. Whole villages in the area have been leveled.
Many people live on their farms and others have moved to Freetown.
The whole of the northern part of the country is rebel held territory. More recently I met with some of our Sierra Leonean staff at a conference in Dakar, Senegal. Each one described the terror that they and their families lived through in the January attacks on Freetown. They told us how Paul, the carpenter who built our houses was captured and killed. He refused to allow his captors to cut off his hands.