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We’re pleased to announce that our 100 acre farm in Sierra leone has began to produce for the Kono youth. We recently visited the youth and the farm with Greener Diamond endorser Johnny littlefield and couldn’t be happier about the progress being made.
From our friends at YAI:
Sierra Leone youth begin harvesting crops.
Close to 500 youth benefiting from YAI’s agriculture project in Kono District, Sierra Leone have begun harvesting rice and other crops planted thanks to Youth Action International with support from The Greener Diamond.
Through Youth Action International’s sustainable agriculture program, the young people (a majority of who are former child soldiers) received training, bought seeds, tools and worked with YAI agriculture experts to plant and harvest the farm.
YAI worked with the youth to reclaim mined out diamond fields and make them suitable to plant. Thousands of acres of mined out diamond areas are wasting away across the diamond rich district and Youth Action International is in continued negotiations with local officials to turn our more land for use by Kono’s youth.
The agriculture project is currently engaging 500 young people in rice and vegetable production. Five hundred youth farmers from twenty two marginalized villages in the districts of Kono are benefiting.
This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 10th, 2010 at 4:50 pm and is filed under News.
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