In the recent IIENetworker magazine, Paul E. McNamara shares about university partnerships in Sierra Leone, which have produced valuable research, teaching, and service opportunities in both directions and have helped prevent a decline in the food security situation due to Ebola. "The Illinois/Njala model illustrates a relatively low-cost academic partnership model delivering benefits to an institution in a post-conflict country as well as a U.S. university," writes McNamara.