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Marie Kanu a childless widow in Motorbong village working in the groundnut farm

CCSL Agriculture Project Gives Hope To Women

CCSL Agriculture Project Gives Hope To Women
Council of Churches in Sierra Leone (CCSL) in a community dialogue on the 20th -22nd July, at various project locations has given hope to women engaging in agriculture through the Women in Climate Change Resilient project.
Women in Climate Change Resilient project aims at engaging women in rural areas in small scale farming and support them with farm input such as tools, fertilizers and seed with support from Presbyterian Disaster Assistant (PDA).
Marie Kanu, a childless widow who lives in Motorbong Village, Moyamba District in the Southern Region of Sierra Leone, said CCSL is the first organization that has brought such agricultural development for women in their village.
She lamented that after the death of her husband survival has been tough for her but that the support, she has received has given her hope as the proceeds from the groundnut they have planted after the harvest would have economic impact on her life.
A single parent six children, Sallay Sillah said the road network to Motorbong Village is very bad and has stopped many developmental programs from reaching them, but that she is impressed with the courage and love CCSL demonstrated in reaching out to a ‘forgotten’ community as theirs.
Women in Cambel Town transplanting rice in the swamp
In Tatiama, Lagor village, Baby Bayoh explained that they (women) were engaged in garden work but had serious constraints acquiring tools, fertilizers and seed.
“We were limited in doing the work and therefore produced poor quality,” she said. Bayoh continued that the agriculture project has changed the story entirely because as they have harvested vegetables which yielded quality produce that was enough to share among themselves, sell and use the proceeds to pay school fees, settle other family needs and bought seeds to plant other crops.
Mabinty Tommy said she appreciated the support from CCSL because she used to take loan from people to do her garden work and she was expected to pay in kind amount of the harvest. If she had bad harvest and could not give as expected, she will be harassed to pay at all cost and sometimes ended up in police station.
The women in Masorie Community, Waterloo in the Western Rural have planted groundnut and vegetables in about seven hectares of land, and they are very hopeful to get a bountiful harvest because of their work and support received from CCSL.
Musu Fofanah in Cambel Town in the East of Freetown, stated that the agricultural project will not only have economic benefits but also social impact as the women have become more united working together in the swamp rice plantation.
Each woman in all the project locations has something positive to say about the impact that the Women in Climate Change Resilient project through CCSL have made in their respective lives.
Women in Lagor village weeding in their groundnut farm

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