On the day we visited Adama she was busy washing and packing her freshly harvested cucumbers, preparing them to be sold. Farmers in our program are able to plant twice during the rainy season, and this was her second harvest. Adama is a single mother with 6 children, so farming allows her to provide for her family. Many of our farmers are single mothers.

Cucumbers are among several vegetable crops grown, in addition to peanuts, or groundnuts as they are often called in Sierra Leone. This allows the farmers to provide more nutritious food for their families, as well as earn a living from the sale of their produce.

Hunger and malnutrition continues to be a big problem for residents of Sierra Leone. Children who are malnurished do not grow to reach their potential, contributing to the cycle of poverty. By providing adults with the training, seeds, and tools needed to grow crops we are helping to break this cycle.

Adama has been a leader in the farming community, and was one of the speakers in a recent video we produced expressing our gratitude to all who supported our agriculture program.