Hello I'm Penny Borum and this is the BBC World Service with Ebola Voices.

I'm a radio producer and for the last 18 months I've been listening here in the UK

to the recorded voices of children in the three kisie chieftains of Sierra Leone

on the border with Liberia and Guinea.

Now gradually with Jesus save me. If you're not being there for Jesus,

no say I could say, I'll growl even Jesus save me. The children like the small boy James live in Kailown District and they've been facing many challenges.

Not only do they live in the most impoverished area of the country,

but their district is also the place where Ebola first took hold in Sierra Leone. My dad was born home.

First my father became ill.

We all had to go to the treatment center.

My father died. I got better, but I was stigmatized. I was very afraid to go outside or move around.

Now I'm suffering from the side effects of the illness. I have headaches, body aches and I have trouble with my eyes.

Sierra Leone's Ebola epidemic which was officially declared over last November, although

there were sporadic cases earlier this year, led to over 14,000 people being infected, and

claimed nearly 4,000 lives. It has had profound and lasting

effects on the country, leaving over 12,000 children orphaned and survivors of the disease

struggling with multiple health problems.

Through a radio project, children have been sharing their experiences of living through the

Ebola crisis and its aftermath with other children in their region.

I've been regularly meeting Sound Engineer Rich Woodhouse

to turn the edited audio files sent to us

into radio programs in my home city of Oxford in the south of England.

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