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