SIERRA LEONE - $3,925
Country Rice, Groundnuts, Cassava
Project Coordinator - Santigie Kamara

This project will support 48 women farmers. Each of the women will grow all three crops. Every three months the NGO will organize a three-day intensive training in various agricultural activities. Repaid loans will be given to newly identified members of other villages and the interest payments will be used for administrative work in additional villages. Anticipated economics for each woman are:

ACTIVITY	LOAN	GROSS INCOME	LOAN PAYMENT	NET INCOME
Rice-growing	$39	$9	$2.50	$5
Groundnut-growing	$15	$7	$1.50	$6.50
Cassava-growing	$28	$16	$3	$9
	$82	$32	$7	$20.50

From Harold Johnson's site visit report, “These women are active and well organized. They have turned the soil over to plant groundnut and they have already planted cassava”

Project Completed: June 30, 2011