Our Mission
SAFS REGIONAL OFFICE IN NEWYORK, MOYAMBA TOWN IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF SIERRA LEONE. This is SAFS regional office in Moyamba, during it renovation process in 2021. Issues concerning our Moyamba’s operation are handled here.
Sustainable Agriculture for Food Security (SAFS) is a registered Non-Governmental and Non-Political organization formed in Sierra Leone, by patriotic and developmental oriented citizens of Sierra Leone with the primary aim of working within the agricultural sector, thereby helping to eradicate hunger and alleviate poverty among farming communities in Sierra Leone and by extension Africa and the world at large. In the bid to help eradicate hunger and alleviate poverty, Sustainable Agriculture for Food Security (SAFS) is operating on three parameters, supporting community farming, individual farming, as a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) and working on their own-self farming activities, in form of small and medium enterprise (SME). The organization started its agricultural work in rice farming, which is the leading farming activity in Sierra Leone. The aim of the organization is to cover all the fourteen districts in Sierra Leone, upon this background SAFS extended its operations in MOYAMBA district in 2020, in form of supporting community farming in both YOYEMA and PALEWAHUN village in KAIYAMBA chiefdom Moyamba district and in 2020 started operations in PUJEHUN district as the organizations own established farm. In line with supporting community and individual farming, Sustainable Agriculture for Food Security (SAFS) mandate is to provide financial aid, seedlings, farming equipment’s, and technical training etc. to farmers.
SAFS PUJEHUN ACTIVITY FILE 2021 FARMING SEASON
Massive brushing activity commences at SAFS farm in BAYAMA town KPANGAKRIM chiefdom in PUJEHUN District.
Transplanting activities taking place in SAFS rice farming project at BAYAMA town in KPANGAKRIM chiefdom in PUJEHUN District.
Transplanting activities continue, as both male and female famers battle out to meet deadline for transplanting time.
Digging/ploughing activities taking place in SAFS pujehun rice farming project in BAYAMA town in KPANGAKRIM chiefdom in PUJEHUN District .
Ploughing activity continues as SAFS expand the farm land to increase their cultivation.
Traditional ponding activities exehibited by both male and female farmers at SAFS rice farming project in BAYAMA town in KPANGAKRIM chiefdom in PUJEHUN District.
SAFS commences its rice research project for the first time in BAYAMA as they bring in three month two weeks rice, which is a new variety that SAFS has introduced for the first time in Sierra Leone; in other to boost sustainable Agricultural rice productivity in Sierra Leone.
Rice research project for the first time in BAYAMA as they bring in three month two weeks rice
SAFS BAYAMA farmers group commences harvest activities for 2021 planting season
Without thrashing machines this is the only option that the farmers had here, and that's really hard and strainful.
SAFS BAYAMA farmers on their Traditional rice drying methods. This is how the drying is been done here without a proper drying floor. The women have to spread tarpaulin or bags in other for the rice to dry up..
After a tough farming season, with the enormous challenges PUJEHUN SAFS farmers finally concludes their three month two weeks JUPITER rice research project.
village in KAIYAMBA chiefdom in MOYAMBA district in the 2020 planting season, marking it the first town that SAFS started its community farming. SAFS Yoyema farmers in their first harvest as SAFS suppoted activity/project.
This is how it feels like doing agriculture in this part of the world, but despite of these enormous challenges SAFS is doing its best to encourage farmers across the country inother to largely involve in SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE, as they look forward to introduce MECHANISE FARMING
Having successfully ended the 2020 farming sseason, SAFS alongside the YOYEMA farmers group decided to continue again another planting season in 2021, with an increased number of members, seedlings, hectares of land. In 2020 for instance one bushel of rice was planted and 22 bushels were harvested. So inother to increase productivity as in line witth SAFS vision, then a total of five bushels were cultivated this season.
SAFS YOYEMA WOMEN FARMERS IN THEIR 2021 PRE TRANSPLANTING ACTIVITIES
Few weeks after transplanting activity in YOYEMA village
PALEWAHUN is a small community located in KAIYAMBA chiefdom, MOYAMBA district, which is about six (6) miles away from the district head quarter town of MOYAMBA in the Southern part of SIERRA LEONE. The predominant activity of the inhabitants is agriculture. Specialized mainly in the cultivation of cassava and rice. SAFS extended its agricultural project there in 2021, making it the SAFS second district of operations, in 2021. SAFS FIRST CONSULTATIVE MEETING HELD WITH PALEWAHUN FARMERS ASSOCIATION MEMBERS ON THE FARM SITE SELECTION PROCESS IN FEBRUARY 2021 .
SAFS DONATE BAGS OF RICE AND CASH TO PALAWAHUN FARMERS ASSOCIATION (PFA) IN MARCH, 2021.
SAFS CONTINUE TO GIVE ITS SUPPORT TO PALEWAHUN FARMERS BY DONATING HOES.
SAFS ARGICULTURAL EXPERT AND RESEARCH COORDINATOR GIVIES TECHNICAL TRAINING ON RICE NURSING OPERATIONS TO A CROSS SECTION OF PALEWAHUN FARMERS IN APRIL 2021
A CROSS SECTION OF SAFS PALEWAHUN FARMERS DURING THEIR BRUSHINH AND BUSH CLEARING ACTIVITIES IN 2021.
SAFS PALEWAHUN FARMERS IN THEIR FIRST TRANSPLANTING ACTIVITIES IN 2021 This is what it means to work in this part of the country, with tthis traditional or local transplanting operations in such a water log area .
SAFS commences Massive vegetable farming brushing activities..
SAFS believes in women empowerement, upon this backgroud we involved them in every sector of our agricultural projects, because without them we believed much success would not be realised.
SAFS VEGETABLE FARMING PROJECT 2022
SAFS VEGETABLE FARMING PROJECT 2022 As parts of our vision, SAFS commences its vegetable farming project in Pujehun district, southern Sierra Leone, in the bid to eradicate hunger and alleviate farming communities off the circles of abject poverty. The project involved women, men, and youths, through the involvement in the production of vegetable farming produce, of which they are been fully paid for their services as well as also benefited from the produce at the end of the day, which they could also use as staple food to feed themselves and their families. The vision of SAFS on this project is to see that all provincial and interior communities of Sierra Leone is largely involved in vegetable farming, thereby providing jobs for the youth and providing sustainability and self-food sufficiency for all. SAFS aim is to extend its operations in all the 12 provincial districts of Sierra Leone. SAFS VEGETABLE FARMING PROJECT SITE SELECTION AND STAKE HOLDERS MEETING. SAFS holds a community engagement meeting on the vegetable farm site selection,
Yoyema Community Cassava GardenSAFS Yoyema Cassava Farm ready to be harvested and processed into Gari.
Cassava is one of the staple foods in Sierra Leone. Cassava can be processed into gari, fufu, starch, cassava chips, cassava bread, and the leaf can also be eaten. It can be cooked directly and eaten. Cassava is one of the most popular foods in West Africa and in most parts of the world. Cassava can be used in many ways and can be used as a medicine. In Yoyama Village, cassava is one of the main crops that are cultivated. It accounts for about 90% of the economic income, just like any rural community in Sierra Leone. Yoyama village is known for its cassava farming in the entire country. However, farmers here gain little from their hard work. Economic activities are very poor here, and transportation facilities are very poor for transporting their crops to a bigger market to do business. Farmers here cannot afford transportation of their crops to the market with the little transportation facilities that are available. They do not have the training and capacity to process cassava to place more value on it. They are still using traditional ways to process the cassava, which will take them months to get anything done. Sustainable Agriculture for Food Security started its operation in this community in 2019. The organization started implementing community rice farming and eventually got involved in cassava farming with the community. SAFS's goal is to create economic opportunities for this community and many more rural communities in Sierra Leone because they are the most economically vulnerable societies in Sierra Leone. Most families live on less than a dollar a day. SAFS is also implementing a seed bank program, where communities involved in community farming are given the opportunity to create a seed bank that can be used to distribute among members and extend operations in other communities. SAFS's aim is to extend operations in the entire country and eventually to other neighboring countries to empower more people, especially women and youth in rural communities. .
Traditional ring method nursing operations in display
Traditional seed bed nursing operations .
SAFS Yoyema Cassava Farm ready to be harvested
Cassava Tuba processed into Gari.
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Many thanks to SAFS for their timely intervention in our village, we are really grateful and we are looking forward to working with you, as the head of Palewahun women farmers i must say my colleague women are really happy for SAFS intervention, as we no longer struggle over food preparation for our farmers, because SAFS has been providing us with food stuff etc.
The coming of SAFS into our village has really bring a blessing to our farmers and the community as a whole. SAFS came to Yoyema in 2020, and they have been working with us as community farming project, and up to this period in time they have been giving us aid, through seedlings, Agricultural tools, food, money and training our farmers on advance agricultural methods. I as Yoyema town chief, alongside my people we must say we are really happy about the enormous help that SAFS has been giving to our town to ensure that the lives of us the farmers, the women, children and the entire community develop.
I have been in farming for over three decades now and it is through this farming that i and my family have been surviving. It honestly hasn't been easy for me as a female farmer over the years, however the intervention of SAFS has really bring a huge relief on us, because previously we have been doing every thing on our own without any help from any where, but thanks to SAFS intervention, as they have now helping us greatly.
SAFS intervention into PALEWAHUN village has really been a stepping stone in the right direction, honestly speaking PALEWAHUN has not been doing rice farming, we have been purely involved in cassava farming, but SAFS really encourage and gives us all the support that we need in other to do rice farming. As the town chief am really excited for this development and my people are as well happy for such development, and we are looking forward to see that we match to expection.
SAFS Mission is “to be an efficient and effective development-oriented community leader, focused on raising awareness and improvements in the areas of sustainable agriculture, education, health, clean water, and sanitation for low-income communities globally.”
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