By Ben Bolland & Momodu Sheku Kamara | Project leader & Program manager
Introduction
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Results of Global Giving field traveler’s fact finding trip.
In our June newsletter we informed you that miss. Dalila Sumani visited our project in Malal Chiefdom. The result of the visit was a positive assessment of our work. We are proud to be awarded with the certificate above, we received recently from Global Giving!
Update action plan summer 2019.
Mid june we hoped to find new ways to attract funds during summer time, to be able to expand the project in october 2019 to a number of 175 farming families. This expansion required EUR 5,000 in new funds. Although we have not been able to execute an active summer campaign, we have received around EUR 1,500, = thank you to all the donors who have supported our project again!
With the available funds and people, we will try to guarantee the support of 150 farming families, so we will have realized an expansion from 125 to 150 farmer families in 2019.
Heavy rains cause flooded areas and damaged roads
The rainy summer period in Sierra Leone of 2019 is the heaviest of the last 10 years. Whereas the heavy rains usually decrease after the two wettest months of July and August (500-1000 mm / month), it still stays very wet this month in Sierra Leone and in the chiefdom. See the photo’s below.
This has severe consequences for harvesting the corn: harvesting is usually already completed at the beginning of September, but this year the farmers are still busy harvesting. Drying the harvested corn cobs is also a challenge, because the majority of the corn is normally dried in the open air…
We all hope that the harvest and the selling price of the corn will again be a sufficient basis to start the next harvest season with enough loans recovery to start the next cropping season project.
Finally...
Thank you for supporting our cause, we appreciate sharing this news letter in your network!
Ben Bolland, president
Kapri Turay, secretary
Momodu Sheku Kamara, program manager
and 125+ farmer families
By M.S. Kamara and Ben Bolland | Country program manager and Project leader
By Ben Bolland | project leader
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