People sometimes ask why We chose Sierra Leone.
Why not somewhere else? Why not somewhere closer? Why not somewhere easier?
The answer is simple.
Because Sierra Leone is where the need is most urgent. Because it is, by measure after measure, the most dangerous place in the world to be born — and to give birth. Because if we believe that every life matters, then we have to be willing to go to the hardest places and stay.
And because the people of Sierra Leone are not a burden. They are partners. Leaders. Builders. Community members who have been waiting not for charity but for the kind of partnership that says — we believe in you. Here are resources. Let's build this together.
Freedom Tree also works alongside First Nations communities in Canada — because the same inequity in maternal health exists here too, closer to home, in communities that have been underserved for generations.
We go where it is hardest because that is where it matters most.
Because easy problems don't need us. The hard ones do.