Ebola On The Ground, Part 5: Tokeh Village

Part 5 of the 'Ebola On The Ground' video series, Tokeh Village, reveals an intimate portrait of a seaside village outside of Freetown, Sierra Leone.

Ebola On The Ground, Part 5: Tokeh Village


This is Part 5 of Okayafrica and Ebola Deeply’s multi-part ‘Ebola On The Ground’ video series. See Part 1: The Outbreak In Sierra Leone, Part 2: The Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary, Part 3: The Ebola Surveillance Team, and Part 4: The Decontaminator, and stay tuned next week for more episodes.

This week’s newest episode of the Ebola On The Ground video series focuses on the picturesque village of Tokeh, where a volunteer Ebola task force does its best to keep their community free of the virus after two cases have been confirmed, and not everyone survives.

Videography/editing by Lance Steagall (Collabo!), on Instagram @lance.steagall

Produced by Vanessa Wruble for Okayafrica

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