A W.I.S.H.-Sierra Leone Receives Grant from First Peoples Worldwide (November 2010)

A W.I.S.H.-Sierra Leone Receives Grant from First Peoples Worldwide (November 2010)

A W.I.S.H-Sierra Leone is pleased to announce an award of $17,200 from an international donor, First Peoples Worldwide Funds, supported by Tides Foundation. The grant will support A W.I.S.H.-Sierra Leone's community empowerment programs. The target beneficiaries are indigenous inhabitants, especially women, of the Kamboma community Korjei Ngieya Section in the Lower Bambara Chiefdom of Eastern Province Sierra Leone. The new funding will complement an already established $7,500 fund used to support indigenous women by enhancing inland swamp rice production and provision of storage facilities. The ongoing project implementation uses the rights-approach and emphasizes community involvement at every stage of project activities. Among other objectives, it aims at empowering Kamboma community with 150 bushels of swamp-rice production and a mechanized rice-processing facility as means to increase its production capacity.