
RAPE OF ADOLESCENT GIRLS: A HIDDEN PANDEMIC IN COVID19 ERA SIERRA LEONE!
“Hello Fatima! I just wanted to inform you that another one of your DIAMONDS Girls in Tuba Village has been raped.” Those were the piercing words of the last of four such messages I received between June and September 2020, just before I traveled to Sierra Leone last month. Our organization, Girls Leadership Empowerment And Development for Change (Girls LEAD Change), has a primary mission of motivating girls in disadvantaged communities build resiliency to combat negative soc