How Amazing Was 2019 for Me?

Katherine Cassidy
6 min readJan 10, 2020
One of the 50 drop-out girls in Sierra Leone we sent back to school.

My 10 biggest takeaways from a fabulous year.

Belately, here are highlights of my year just past — the good alongside the sad. For context, I have just finished 2–1/2 years living in Kambia, Sierra Leone — coming and going, that is. I moved here independently in 2017, and have now started an NGO called Hearts of Sierra Leone — dedicated to vulnerable adolescent girls.

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Katherine Cassidy

What matters more than educating girls in Africa? Ex-state legislator in Maine now living in Sierra Leone: “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”