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ACDI/VOCA Sierra Leone budgeting for nutritious future with cash transfers

Budgeting for an Equitable, Nutritious Future

When I was a child, before the advent of Quicken or finance software, my dad would pull out the handwritten …

Pathway to Nutrition through Women’s Empowerment

ACDI/VOCA Sierra Leone Snap+ measuring child for development

Building Resilience During Humanitarian Crises

At Inside NGO’s recent Food Aid Roundtable, Matthew Nims, acting director of Food for Peace (FFP), spoke about the future …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

Sierra Leone SNAP VSLA woman participant

Sierra Leone SNAP-Established VSLAs Empower

Adama Kamara is used to not having much privacy. She and her husband used to sleep in a single room …

Sierra Leone Agricultural Value Chain Analysis: Animal Protein, Grains, Horticulture & Legumes/Pulses in the Bombali & Tonkolili Districts