Shine On Sierra Leone: Shine On Sierra Leone | 9 Mile Scroll by David&Goliath

David&Goliath (D&G) partnered up with non-profit Shine On Sierra Leone to illustrate the harrowing three-plus hour-long journey for students in the African nation.

To raise donations for a new school close to students in the country, D&G created a web experience that illustrates how far young Sierra Leoneans currently have to go — nine miles. That trek from home takes the children through dirt roads filled with poisonous snakes, in humid weather (sometimes monsoons), past abandoned diamond mines with malaria-laced pools of water, and in the midst of sexual predators.

A button allows you to skip to the next mile, as long as you understand these children don’t have that luxury. And when school is over, there is no bus to pick them back up or parent waiting in a car or minivan: just the same treacherous road home. During this scroll, an odometer lets you know how far your fingers have gotten you as you walk with the students, learning new information with them. By mile three, you will see a prompt, showing the location of a new school Shine on Sierra Leone is creating with D&G’s help.