Our impact in 2025 and 2026: gradual progress

Our impact in Calaba Town, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Monthly support for 3 schoolchildren (girl aged 9, boy aged 15, girl aged 17): school uniform, school fees, food, and drinks. The parents of these children have insufficient income to afford this. Support for the woman taking care of these children: providing lodging and daily care.
Support for an aged lady who suffered a TIA (Transient Ischemic Attack): providing a mattress and facilitating medical help and advice.
Supplying books to the Rising Academy Network primary school in Calaba Town.

A 30-acre rice project, yielding 110 bags of rice (50 kg each), enough to feed 10 families for a whole year. Furthermore, several jobs were created, providing employees with sufficient means to sustain their families for a year.
A groundnut (peanut) project of 8 acres, which also created several jobs and provided families with means to sustain themselves through the harvest.

Provided a meal for approximately 60 disabled individuals at the House of Freetown, a project primarily for victims of the 1991–2002 Civil War.
Rented space for a shop, enabling a woman on Forah Bay Street, Freetown, to run her own business selling second-hand goods.

Provided temporary shelter for a homeless family (father, mother, 3 children) for several months in Waterloo.
Supplied relief goods for some of the projects mentioned here.
Provided microcredits and grants to a number of people, enabling them to start their own businesses.
In Mabole, a small village in Bombali district, we provided 15 women with 30 bags of groundnuts (or peanuts) for planting. The harvest of 40 bags enabled 20 women to get to work, allowing this project to grow and become self-sufficient.

Created jobs through our agricultural project for over 20 workers, giving them the opportunity to sustain their families.
Sustainably cultivated palm oil, plantain, cassava, and various other crops. The cassava is processed into Gari (cassava powder, see photo). The palm oil, cassava, and plantains are used to annually supply the local market in and around Ijebu-Itele with ample quantities of locally grown food, thereby making the community less dependent on imported foods.
From 2026 the palm fruit is processed into palm oil and palm kernel oil manually in our own agricultural project.
Support for 2 families (with 2 and 3 children) for school fees and school uniforms. The mothers were single and also received a job at our agricultural project.