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Sierra Leone SNAP project participants

Through SNAP-Initiated VSLAs, Communities are Able to Save and Provide for Their Families in Sierra Leone

Life has been challenging for Dusu Conteh, a 50-year-old widow, who struggled to feed her eight children and pay their …

Zambia Profit+'s JASADON links farmers to markets

Zambia PROFIT+ Training and Grant Spur Start Up of Produce Aggregator

Our USAID-funded Feed the Future Production, Finance, and Improved Technology Plus (PROFIT+) project decreases poverty by linking smallholder farmers to …

Zambia Profit+

Zambia PROFIT+ Grantee Creates Opportunity for Marginalized Women

ACDI/VOCA implements the USAID-funded Feed the Future Production, Finance, and Improved Technology Plus (PROFIT+) project in Zambia. As part of …

Uganda RWANU Enhances Health and Well-Being of Mothers and Children

Uganda RWANU Enhances Health and Well-Being of Mothers and Children

In southern Karamoja, which lies in remote northeastern Uganda, health facilities are few and far between. Previously, 32-year-old mother of …

Sierra Leone SNAP female farmer empowered

Sierra Leone SNAP Empowers Farmers to Increase Yields and Curb Malnutrition

Life hasn’t been easy for mother of nine, Isata Bangura. Prior to participating in the ACDI/VOCA-implemented USAID Food for Peace-funded …

Beekeeping Boosts Incomes in Uganda

In the remote, dusty village of Kamera in northeastern Uganda, villagers have traditionally depended on hunting, day labor, and small-scale …

Zambia Profit+ farmer Jessy Mwebe

Zambian Woman Farmer Transforms Community Thanks to Profit+ Training and Support

In Mgamphula in Zambia’s Eastern Province, Jessy Mbewe works hard farming, training smallholder farmers in her community, and running the …

Sierra Leone SNAP cash disbursements

Sierra Leone SNAP+ Restores Dignity through Cash Disbursements

Sierra Leone’s first confirmed case of Ebola surfaced in early 2014. By July, 2014 the Government of Sierra Leone had …

Kaday Fullah SNAP+ project participant

SNAP+ Cash Transfers Ensure Food Security and Preserve a Widow’s Sight in Sierra Leone

In Makaiba village in northern Sierra Leone, Bombali district, Kaday Fullah is grateful every morning when she opens her eyes. …

trifinia sibande zambia profit +

Zambia PROFIT+-Trained Woman Farmer Finds Success and Empowerment by Diversifying Income

Trifonia Sibande, age 43, and her husband Digani Sibande, live in Ngwata village, Lundazi district, in Zambia’s Eastern Province. Trifonia …

Sierra Leone SNAP mothers learn WASH practices

Sierra Leone SNAP Trains Mothers on Nutrition and WASH Best Practices

Over the last few years, Hawa McCarthy, a young mother of five in Mobai village, Kailahun district, received guidance on …

farmers using Purdue Improved Crop Storage (PICS) bags to regain food security

Restoring Household Food Security in Sierra Leone

In Sierra Leone, seed and harvested cereal and legumes are often stored in jute bags on dirt floors, in poorly …