NEO Magazine Issue 3 | Page 12

Sacha Stone, Wolf Knoerr, Michael Rice, Brad Bilbie, Janie Rayne, & Roy Snell, with Bishop Samuel Ndaname and Vice President Victor Bockarie Foh of Sierra Leone We flew in to Freetown via Casablanca in August and were met at the customs port by emissaries of the Bishop. They waived us through the yellow card nonsense (mandatory vaccinations) dreamt up by the World Health Organisation on the back of the recent, and clearly engineered, Ebola ‘scare.’ Renowned bio-architect and New Earth Institute Fellow Michael Rice accompanied us as prospective Sierra Leone NewEarth master-planner, along with NewEarth core-director Wolfgang Knoerr, our financial and development maestro Brad Bilbie, and delegation photographers Janie Rayne and Roy Snell. Sierra Leone greeted us with more love, light, and serendipity than any of us merited. On the first night we dined with Bishop Ndaname, the Trade Industry envoy to the President, the Deputy Finance Minister, and the Minister of Tourism & Culture. Over the following week we met with the Vice-President and a number of Ministers in