Rosalyn Powell

Just three chance encounters have led to a Sierra Leonean family’s reunion in Australia. With a bit more luck the whole family will be reunited this year. On January 6, 1999, Mary Fonah was a nurse working at a government hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Her husband, a doctor, phoned to say the rebels had reached Freetown. He would shortly collect Mary from the hospital after picking up their children.