Bumpenya

This is pretty cool. I remember opening up a "Newsweek" in late 2006 and reading a small clip about this story. Sarah Culbertson (Bumpenya) set out to meet her biological parents a few years ago. Her father, she discovered, was an influential community leader in the village of Bumpe. His brother is chief of the village--he was supposed to be but he had "resigned" to lead the school in the village. Long story short, after Sarah went to Sierra Leone for the first time and met her father and other residents of Bumpe, she has been working to raise funds and support to rebuild the school and do some other projects in the community and area.

Bumpe is "down the road" from Bo--between Bo and Mattru Jong.