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“I Will Be the One Using Leaves”
Hawa and girls in her Liberian village, received lifechanging, reusable Days for Girls feminine hygiene kits. Now four years later, we get to help Dignity4Girls send 1,000 feminine hygiene kits to Liberia.
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They Need an Advocate. Will You Speak Out for Them?
The chance to make a big difference without spending a lot of time or money doesn’t come along very often. Sometimes the main thing you need to do is SPEAK UP, or in other words, ADVOCATE for someone else. I’m asking you to advocate for someone you’ll never meet. She’s an...
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Why Should Girls Hang Their Heads When They Menstruate? Or Miss School?
Please help White Field Partners launch it’s GAME-CHANGER Days for Girls initiative in Sierra Leone. Many things impact school attendance throughout the world, but menstrual hygiene is one most people don’t think about. This one simple thing can radically change a...
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You Made the Children Shout for Joy about Safe Water
The banner used to dedicate a new well at a school in Port Loko District in Sierra Leone arrived in Rock Island just in time for the end of a winning season by the Augustana College Women’s Lacrosse team. Jim Kopel, who was instrumental in our fundraising campaign to send...
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Congratulations Village Hope Inc. “Jobs Change Everything”
We’ve eaten lots of cassava greens and a few boiled tubers, but this is amazing! Village Hope Inc’s gari production plant is up and running. Great job, Jon Bart and team. As you say, “Jobs Change Everything.” If you haven’t had gari, it’s a...
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How Can You Help a Whole Generation? Help a Woman Start a Business
No matter how you break it down – girls and women in the poorest countries get the raw end of the deal. Charity only sustains an untenable status quo. Income-generating opportunities raise the status of families and future generations. We’re tweaking our slogan...
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Fourteen New Wells in 2015–1000’s With Safe Drinking Water
Great report about the portable drilling rig we helped purchase. In 2015, Mariatu’s Hope drilled 14 boreholes. Three were at schools. Four were in communities that had at least one overused hand pump. Seven wells were drilled in villages with absolutely no water source...
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“No, You Cannot Come to School”
Her story is tragic, and it plays out all the time. “When I got pregnant, they said, ‘No, you cannot come to school.'” Not only is her future devalued, but also the future of her baby and any future children. “Worldwide, around 16 million girls between...
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80% – 140% Income Growth : It’s Possible for Smallholder Farmers
“Farmers can increase their net yearly incomes by 80-140 percent when they have access to productivity-enhancing technologies such as improved seeds, micro-irrigation systems or improved cow breeds. A recent study by consulting firm Hystra showed that significant gains...
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Did You Know that Your Cook Stove Affects Your Health?
We’ve eaten many meals cooked in a pot on three stones with fuelwood fire. Although it seems charming to visitors, this cooking method is inefficient, hazardous to health, and ecologically unsustainable. We dream of improved cooking stoves, such as inexpensive rocket stoves,...
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"Help a Child / Change a Nation"
February Focus : New GAME-CHANGER Initiative
Hope Innovation Farms
We started planning for Hope Innovation Farms before Ebola hit, but now it’s even more important. The Hope Innovation Farm (HIF) initiative will empower vulnerable children in the Lungi
Women’s Agri-Business
The rainy season is starting, so the plowing needs to be done quickly. Instead of picks and hoes, the tilling will be done with tractors thanks to our collaboration with Village Hope Inc.
Days for Girls
I’ve agonized over the high incidence of FGM, the rate of teen pregnancies, the fact that pregnancy and childbirth is the leading cause of death for teenage girls, the gender gap in
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Hawa and girls in her Liberian village, received lifechanging, reusable Days for Girls feminine hygiene kits. Now four years later, we get to help Dignity4Girls send 1,000 feminine hygiene kits to Liberia.
The chance to make a big difference without spending a lot of time or money doesn’t come...
Please help White Field Partners launch it’s GAME-CHANGER Days for Girls...
Measurable, lasting impact. I wish it weren’t so elusive. In a developing country,...
The banner used to dedicate a new well at a school in Port Loko District in Sierra Leone...
We’ve eaten lots of cassava greens and a few boiled tubers, but this is amazing!...
Today is World Malaria Day. GOOD NEWS The global malaria mortality rate was reduced by...
We’ve eaten so many meals cooked over a three-stone fuelwood fire. Even though the...
Maybe it’s the hard work, fetching water or fuelwood and washing laundry in a tub,...
I wanted rabbit farming to be part of Hope Innovation Farms. I even have a book on...
A study by the United Nations Development Programme said that in Sierra Leone teenage...
A few days ago, I talked with Ben Turner, President of Just Hope International, just...
Sometimes I feel impatient about the two minutes it takes me to fill a pitcher of...
No matter how you break it down – girls and women in the poorest countries get the...
It only comes once every four years. It’s like a bonus. What will you do with it?...
Great report about the portable drilling rig we helped purchase. In 2015,...
“Operating in 169 countries, school meal programmes are funded largely by...
I grew up on a farm in central Illinois in the shadow of The University of Illinois, and...
Today is International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation. Instead of...
Sierra Leone still teeters on the knife’s edge when it comes to health, particularly...
Her story is tragic, and it plays out all the time. “When I got pregnant, they...
With the right innovations, world-changing results are possible. We’re...
“Farmers can increase their net yearly incomes by 80-140 percent when they have...
One of the hardest aspects of Sierra Leonean culture for most Americans to understand is...
“Poverty, child labour and illiteracy form a kind of “vicious triangle.” They are...
“Youth are critical to and for development. Development programmes must consider...
I visited Binkolo in 2013. It’s just a few miles from Makeni where we were...
We’ve eaten many meals cooked in a pot on three stones with fuelwood fire. Although it...
Even on a hard day, the music in Sierra Leon is happy. Here’s a taste of the sound...
The World Bank-funded West Africa Agricultural Productivity Program (WAAPP) is...
A few days ago, Sierra Leone’s northern neighbor Guinea was declared Ebola free....
Honestly, I was busy getting ready for Thanksgiving and then Christmas, so I neglected...
In Sierra Leone, one goat is worth a bit more than five bushels of rice. For a farmer...
Access to critical information and resources is one factor that keeps subsistence...
On the farm in central Illinois where I grew up, the soil was rich and black. My dad...
Street Child, a UK Charity that did amazing work on the ground during the Ebola crisis...
My brother does precision farming with satellite data controlling his giant farm...
Although Sierra Leone has contributed little to the global buildup of greenhouse gasses,...
Sierra Leone has the second highest infant mortality rate in the world. One in ten...
Last year at this time we were trying to get the courage to commit to raising funds for...
Climate change is threatening global food security. Farming is part of the problem, but...
Africa is much more than poverty, crises and disasters. Many African economies are...
Each year the Global Harvest Initiative (GHI) publishes it’s Gap Report, a...
AmeriSierra is our response to the Ebola orphan crisis in Port Loko District....
We started planning for Hope Innovation Farms before Ebola hit, but now it’s even...
Mariatu’s Hoperecently dedicated the well at Bethel Primary School, the first well...
In any catastrophe, children suffer disproportionately. The Street Child Ebola Orphan...
The rainy season should be tapering off by mid-September, but torrential rains are...
After all the fundraising, shipping, clearing customs, training teams, and so many other...
Imagine that you’re this woman with two children of your own. Maybe you’re a...
This week we received a check for $1,000 that we plan to use for the family of six...
Mariatu’s Hope posted this video of children when they heard the announcement that...
Imagine having your first taste of clean water. That’s what happened to this...
The LS200 portable drilling rig arrived safely in Freetown. It was an answered prayer...
If my heart were open to every tragedy, I might not be able to function, but this one...
The Our Hearts Pump for Safe Water drilling rig campaign was a huge success because over...
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The faucet at my kitchen sink would be like science fiction to Wara. Just having safe...
Here’s how you can be part of our team to provide safe water to thousands of...
We have so many possibilities for helping children, but we need a new tool, an LS 200...
How important is it to be able to write your own name? I think it’s a fundamental...
Please listen to Ruth Search of Mariatu’s Hope tell Peter’s amazing story....
Finally, the Ebola stats are going down. President Koroma announced recently that...
I’m a sixty-seven year old woman living comfortably in Moline, Illinois. Is it...
For most Americans, Ebola is no longer headline news. We seem to have calmed down about...
Ebola changes things. This deadly disease is threatening children we know and love in...
Help Build the School in Batkanu When we used $500 to start a one-room school in the...
Rainy season quickly becomes “sick season” starting in May. Last year,...
Through all of 2013, she was never far from our thoughts. Sometimes she was agonizingly...
It was the last day of our three-week mission. The dream I worked on for months was...
The adoption of Precious Hope seemed to be getting so close despite all the frustrations...
When we started this journey, we never imagined it would take this long. It’s been...
This is Precious a month before her first birthday. She was learning to walk...
Please donate to our medical emergency fund. This is Binty holding Precious Hope. For...
This is Rugi. I didn’t want to hear it. I didn’t want to know it. I...
We waited such a long time to see her and touch her. When the moment finally came, it...
No that’s not African pizza. It’s party refreshments, and it includes fish...
We learned on our first trip to the rice swamp that our new partners, the people of the...
I think a lot about two beautiful and determined women. I met them at the swamp and...
As soon as we arrived in Sierra Leone on September 10, we headed for the swamp....
What effect can millions of seeds have on people who experience a “hungry season” as a...
I caught my breath when I saw the headline. It was the cover story of the June issue of...
In mid-May three men arrived in Freetown announcing that Mahawa, Precious’ grandma, was...
Often when people think of orphans, they think of very young children like Mohammed and...
One of the issues we faced when we first considered supporting House of Hope was the...
When my friend Carolynn, who is affectionately called Mama Caroline, and I made our...
Pastor Abdul was more confident than I was that MaHawa’s family would welcome her...
Often when people think of orphans, they think of very young children like Mohammed and...
There are children in Sierra Leone who are naked, not because of preference or cultural...
I just learned that her name is Ma Hawa. Since December 1 when I first learned about...
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