Katie, Emily and I have continued to do interviews since we last spoke. Among others, we've met with GOAL, Defense for Children International, Red Cross, Humanist Watch, a community health officer and others. I don't have our schedule in front of us. We have conducted over 20 interviews. We have also compiled information for all of these interviews and spent the end of this past week reviewing them all and making a comprehensive list of gaps and problem areas that we identified.
Just this Friday and Saturday, Emily and I were able to attend a conference for the Eastern Region Paramount Chiefs led by the Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone (HRCSL). It was held at the Pastoral Center and we really enjoyed it.
Through James, the new M&E officer for Lassa, we are going to be able to attend the Ministry of Health's Public Health Conference in Freetown this Tuesday and Wednesday. Emily, Katie R., Katherine, and I (and probably Andrea and Chelsea) will be attending. We just made the arrangements today, so I apologize for the last-minute notice.
Another thing I should bring to your attention is that we had an immigration officer from the Eastern Region come to the Pastoral Center Saturday morning at 8am and demand to see all of our passports (just us Tulane students). He proceeded to take down our names, passport numbers, visa numbers. We really didn't know how to handle the situation and will are hoping to contact the SL Embassy and US Embassy to make sure that this was an appropriate request. Dr. Goba fortunately showed up at that time (to randomly ask if anyone wanted to go to Liberia) and so he was there to talk to the immigration officer, but he showed up after we had been discussing things for quite sometime. The men at the Pastoral Center said they had never seen that happen before?!
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