SIERRA LEONE - SULIMA, MARCH 19, 2007 : Elderly woman making a funny face. Sulima is a fishing village on the Alantic coast at the mouth of the Moa River near the Liberian border. Along its pristine beach, one of the longest in West Africa, fishermen launch dugout canoes and fish with nets drag back manually from the shore. Larger power boats mainly from Ghana leave from the more sheltered harbour on the Moa River. Most of the fish is smoke dried by the women of the village and then sold in markets as far off as Monrovia, Liberia. (Photo by Christopher Herwig / Aurora)
Old Man Pyne as Isaac Pyne is called was born as he described before his family and the village discovered the concept of age, estimates he is 89 years old.
UNMIL Photo/Christophe Herwig - Ganta, Liberia, July 30, 2008 : Tonglewin Village elder Kou Pealea has 30 grandchildren and an infection in her knee. Before the war she was a midwife; however her clinic was burnt to the ground by soldiers. Now she delivers babies inside her home. But every day she works in the field with the other woman in the Ganta Concerned Women's Group.
