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Isatu Kanu enjoys some of the afternoon sunlight coming in through the newly painted window shutters at the King George Home for the Elderly in Freetown, Sierra Leone. It is rare for the elderly to live in group homes in sub-Saharan Africa, but most of the residents at King George Home in Freetown, Sierra Leone, lost their families during the country's brutal civil war.

Isatu Kanu enjoys some of the afternoon sunlight coming in through the newly painted window shutters at the King George Home for the Elderly in Freetown, Sierra Leone. It is rare for the elderly to live in group homes in sub-Saharan Africa, but most of the residents at King George Home in Freetown, Sierra Leone, lost their families during the country's brutal civil war.