A graduate student of mine was reading a book about Sierra Leone, and she discovered that the word "Kenema," the hospital that we work at and the city where we work in Sierra Leone, is named after the Mende word for "clear like a river, translucent and open to the public gaze." That was really profound for us, because without knowing it, we'd always felt that in order to honor the individuals in Kenema where we worked, we had to work openly, we had to share and we had to work together.
Una estudiante de mi equipo leyó un libro sobre Sierra Leona, y descubrió que la palabra "Kenema", el hospital y la ciudad en la que trabajamos en Sierra Leona, debe su nombre a la palabra mende para "clara como un río, translúcido, y abierto al escrutinio público". Eso nos tocó mucho a nosotros porque, sin saberlo, siempre sentimos eso para honrar a los individuos en Kenema donde trabajamos, hemos tenido que trabajar abiertamente, compartiendo y colaborando.