What are we really doing with our lives? What is it that makes a difference in the lives of those around us? Can we ever do enough…can we ever say no? These thoughts and more trouble me daily. I know there is such a need in the world, a need for change and before that a need for hope. Here in Sierra Leone I see extreme hopelessness and despair. The people are so jaded by what they have seen in the last 5 years since the war…so many promises and no delivery. People say that they want change, but no one seems to know what that really means. It will take more than a fistful of dollars; it will take nothing less then our lives. Thomas Jefferson once said, “From time to time the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” Sierra Leone has seen its bloodshed, but will she find her freedom?