ALLISON CROSS

I produced this video last month for the video journalism site Rocketboom, about the extreme flooding in Kroo Bay, the biggest slum in Freetown. A maze of shacks, Kroo Bay is located at the bottom of Freetown's hills. Water rushes down towards the slum when it rains, causing extreme flooding. The water also brings with it piles and piles of garbage. Families live on top of the garbage and deal with soaring rates of pneumonia, malaria and other water-borne diseases.