Credit: Moses Kargbo, World Bank – Khadija Musa, Vice Chairlady and Marketing Officer of SWDA in front of the organization’s container used as store for their equipment. Washington, USA, 10 March 2023-/African Media Agency/“Our families have enough food to eat. We manage our farms and breed poultry to serve both subsistence and commercial purposes. This is…– Khadija Musa, Vice Chairlady and Marketing Officer of SWDA in front of the organization’s container used as store for their equipment.
The group supports other business initiatives that generate additional income for its core members – more than 50 women – as well as employ other women and young men who help with poultry and vegetable farming. Sanda Women is a beneficiary of a $30,000 grant support from the Smallholder Commercialization and Agribusiness Development Project , a program by the Government of Sierra Leone financed by the World Bank.
Oyah Mariama Kamara, daughter of the group’s CEO, graduated in February with a first-class BSc. in Computer Science from Njala University. Last November, she participated in a hackathon contest organized by the university and emerged as one of the top three winners. She represented Sierra Leone in a hackathon in India in January.
The son of another project member graduated with a degree in medicine and is currently a practicing medical doctor.The Sanda Women are currently transitioning from a producer organization to a company. Thewill be able to leverage private capital from commercial banks to move their operations to scale.