Sierra Leone has a national cleaning day once a month

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The country with a monthly cleaning day A new campaign introduced by the country's president, has called on people to get out on the streets and clean.

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From Ebola survivor to trainee doctor Five years ago, Daniel lost everything to Ebola. Now he's training to become a doctor.

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'Why I left Utah for Sierra Leone' Krio Borbor is from Utah, but speaks Krio and loves his life in Sierra Leone.

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'I was a scavenger, now I run the dump' For eight years Yassine scavenged on a dump in Rabat, Morocco. But now he is the founder of the first cooperative for waste recycling in the country.

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‘How a bus saved my life’ Asia, a widow in Pakistan, broke gender stereotypes by becoming female bus driver.

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I called for help during Ebola - no response The BBC's Umaru Fofana asks whether corruption led to a lack of ambulances during Sierra Leone's Ebola crisis.

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