Our Mission
Out of 7,541,641 total population, (Ref. midterm Census 2022) 55% of the total population are living in rural communities, in poor and deplorable housing conditions across the country of Sierra Leone.. This includes lack of toilet facilities, and pure drinking water health facilities.Contaminated water and poor sanitation are linked to transmission of diseases such as cholera, diarrhea, dysentery, hepatitis A, typhoid, and polio. Absent, inadequate, or inappropriately managed water and sanitation services expose individuals to preventable health risks. - World Health Organization Mokonde community water source for drinking cooking etc. In 2010, the UN General Assembly explicitly recognized the human right to water and sanitation. Everyone has the right to sufficient, continuous, safe, acceptable, physically accessible, and affordable water for personal and domestic use SAFS generally operates in marginalized and deprived rural communities across the 3 districts of Sierra Leone, and all of these communities are prone to health hazards. Currently SAFS is serving 4,500 farmers in these communities. Whose families face constraints/challenges with pure drinking water and toilet facilities. The only source of drinking water is from swamp streams, in which the people use this same body of water to conduct all domestic activities i.e. to drink, to wash laundry, for defecating, cooking, and farming. It’s causing a great deal of health issues, especially in children. Some have water wells but are no more functional because these communities cannot afford to repair them. This is affecting children attending schools because they have to walk sometimes, half a mile or a mile to get drinking and cooking water from the streams. This is affecting female children because they have to walk through the forest to fetch water where they are vulnerable to rape and snake bites. .
Mokonde community water source for drinking cooking etc.
The constraints and challenges describe the poor socio-economic status of the people of these communities, especially women.
Meeting with Mokonde community
Our Goal Is to Help Communities Get clean Water for Cooking and Drinking
Struggles For Water, Health and Sanitation in Rural communities in Sierra Leone .
Yoyama village mendekellem section kaiyamba chiefdom Moyamba District Southern province. It is 6 miles from the district Head quarter town Moyamba
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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