At Compassion Africa, we want to give children a life of love and hope. Our Children?s Village will put orphaned children back into a family environment. Our Children?s Village will offer schooling for children that would otherwise have none. When a quick kiss of kindness is not enough, our Children?s Village will aim to give hopeless children a lifetime of love.

As the UK marks 200 years since it abolished the slave trade, Sierra Leone has decided to purge its capital, Freetown, of streets named after the British and replace them with the names of Africans who fought in the abolition movement.

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