Friends of the African Dream

Together we are building a hopeful future in Sierra Leone by supporting local initiatives that really make a difference.
Our journey so far.

Our messages

17 December 2025
December 2025

A lot was going on this year….! We were highly involved in education, but also in eye care. Students passed…

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11 December 2024
December 2024

Another year has passed! Looking back there have been great developments this year, both in Sierra Leone and in The…

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17 December 2023
December 2023

This year obviously had a particularly sad turn due to the unexpected death of our local partner, Daniel O’ James…

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17 December 2022
December 2022

As every year, we look back at the end of the year. And again, there are things that went well…

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17 December 2021
December 2021

Although we had some periods of “lock down” in The Netherlands, we were able to visit Sierra Leone a few…

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17 December 2020
December 2020

2020: what an odd year! Due to all restrictions we were able to visit Sierra Leone only once, in January.…

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17 December 2019
December 2019

The year has passed again so fast. A lot has happened again, not only in the world, but also in…

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17 March 2019
March 2019

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17 December 2018
December 2018

It is some kind of a tradition that we give a retrospective at the end of the year. And that…

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17 May 2018
May 2018

Dr. Henk Veraart (ophthalmologist) and his wife Maria Veraart (social worker, psychologist) were in Sierra Leone for FAD in the…

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17 December 2017
December 2017

In October we came to Sierra Leone with quite a big team. In the first week we had dr.Wim Klein…

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17 December 2017
December 2017

Looking back….. We have entered the year 2018, so this is the moment to look back at  the year behind…

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3 December 2017
March 2017

An Open Eye for Sierra Leone. A few weeks ago we had a two days refresher course for eye nurses…

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17 December 2016
December 2016

So near the end of the year, we look at the fact why we did not have blogs last year.…

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17 December 2015
December 2015

The year 2015 is coming towards and end,  time for some reflection! It has been quite an eventful year, especially…

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17 December 2015
May 2015

A few weeks ago we were finally  able to visit Sierra Leone again. The Ebola Outbreak came somewhat under control…

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