Very latest news - and I am amazed.

In 2011 we set up our micro-enterprise scheme which lent money to the poorest of the poor to set up or expend a small business. We began with five clients who were given the equivalent of £140 each.

 Fatamata Conteh was typical of those that the committee wished to support. She was married with two children, Hassan and David. She had been in business for the last eight years and used the loan to purchase equipment to keep produce cool until she it needed for her small food outlet.

I don't know how she survived the difficult economic conditions during the Ebola period when prices rocketed due to the banning of movement in the country and nothing coming in from abroad.

Her loan repayments would have ended by now anyway.

Alpha tells me that the programme is to restart after Independence Day, 27th April, and they have 7.5 million Leones in the kitty. Sounds better in Leones but it is actually £1,335. I am amazed at this! What about you Andy Meek? You helped to start it all.  And before anyone asks, No. It can't be used for the building Fund.