Sandi Halimuddin

Sandi Halimuddin is a recent grad from the UW, where she studied international studies and journalism. Her work has been published in The Seattle Times, the Seattle Weekly and Awoko Newspaper in Freetown, Sierra Leone. When she isn't buried in newspapers and magazines, Sandi likes to bake, watch Netflix and travel.
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Children fetching water from Cockle Bay, in Freetown. (Photo from Flickr by Matt Stephenson)

Refugee from Sierra Leone puts personal struggle with PTSD to work for others

by Sandi Halimuddin
Salifu Mansaray has turned his own experience of trauma from Sierra Leone’s bloody civil war into an asset in serving mentally ill seniors in Burien.
Aug 19, 2013