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By: Alusine Rehme Wilson At its head office at 21 Conteh Street in Makeni, leading humanitarian organization Action to Heal Foundation Sierra Leone (A2HF-SL) on October 4, 2020 supported 40 Vulnerable and physically challenged school going pupils in Bombali district with assorted learning materials plus financial funding in their second “Back to School Donation”   The donation marks the foundation’s second educational helping hand provided to vulnerable and physically challenged school going pupils in the country since it was established in 2019 by way of complimenting Government’s Free Quality Education drive. In her welcome address, Zainab Mummy Tholley, the Foundation and CEO-I called on parents and beneficiaries to accept the donation and use it judiciously.  She further disclosed that this year’s donation is bigger than the previous one and that dozens of books, pens, sharpeners, erasers, rulers, a black board and the sum of Le 100,000 each will be given to the best JSS pupil prom...

Cashew is a “hanging diamond” as described by Karene district farmers due to its economic viability. However, farmers engaging on cashew cultivation in this part of the country have not been realizing a greater dividend from their labor, until the intervention of COOPI through the European Union funded project “Fostering Smallholders Agriculture in Sierra Leone” under the theme of “Pro-resilience Action 2015”.  Now farmers have started realizing not only income from the sales of the cashew, but also diversifying their food consumption” says John Dto Kamara, District Council Chairman, Karene District. The newly opened Cashew Processing Unit (CPU) in Kamalo, Karene district on the 7th October 2020 is one among the six Cashew Processing Units constructed by COOPI with funds from the European Union in four operational districts of Kambia, Port Loko, Bombali and Karene. The Kamalo CPU was officially handed over to the Cashew farmers and processors through the Ministry of Agriculture and For...