Sierra Leone called for help, I couldn’t say no

I’ve lived in a tent in South Sudan for a year and spent hours at checkpoints in Iraq, but nothing prepared me for what ebola is doing in western Africa, writes Save the Children worker Sarah Murphy

Arriving in Sierra Leone in the midst of this Ebola crisis is a disconcerting experience. A veil of calm and silence sits, tensely, over the city.

Until you can put your finger on it, you struggle to identify what is different. As humanitarian workers, we’re used to natural disasters and conflict zones.