900 Refugees Once Camped Here: Photo of the Week

By Brooke Edwards

October 3, 2019

Last Updated: January 18, 2012

Photo by Geoff Bugbee, courtesy of Heifer International
In Port Loko, Sierra Leone, Marie Kabba (52), a widow and member of the Kamuyu Women's Development Organization gardening collective walks through a row of lush Chinese beans that climb and weave through trellised bamboo poles. What used to be a refugee camp for 900 displaced people from surrounding villages is now a vibrant parcel of arable land.