SIERRA LEONE ($4,000)
Production and Sale of Foodstuffs
Project Coordinator - Mrs. Jariatu M. Turay

One hundred rural war widows are participating in this one-year project.

WWDP is a current RSWR partner. This project will provide additional funds to expand and sustain the current agricultural project by granting loans to 100 more poor rural war widows on the waiting list. The women will grow crops such as okra, potatoes, groundnuts, foofoo, cassava, and rice. A loan of $40 will be given to each woman, who will repay the loan in six months, at 1% per month interest. Total repayment will be $45. Each woman will be able to earn a monthly income of $85.

In the first RSWR-sponsored project (2007) most of the animals died of an epidemic and the women were not able to pass the offspring along to new members as planned. However, the remaining animals are being reared for re-distribution. In the current project, the 100 women are granted loans to be repaid at the end of six months. Due to this slow process of loan and interest repayment in the earlier project, WWDP has changed the program to monthly loan repayment, which is more effective in terms of recovery.

From Harold Johnson’s report, “This program is doing very well. I don't have much to say as it is no stranger to RSWR.”

Project Completed: December 31, 2010