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FUTURE IN OUR HANDS SIERRA LEONE

BACKGROUND
An FIOH group was established by Olatunde Johnson in Freetown in the 1980s and registered as a national non-government organisation by Edward Kargbo in 1995. The first interest in the movement arose from an article in the New Internationalist and the second from a seminar at Port Loko when Mike Thomas paid a second visit to the country in 1991. Edward, who attended the seminar, formed an association of 13 farmers groups which was then named the FIOH Farmers Union. The name was later changed to FIOH Sierra Leone.
A more detailed account of the history from 1988 to 2003, including news extracts on the civil war, are described in the following pages:

1. FIOH Fund Projects in Sierra Leone

2. Sierra Leone Diary - Report on Mike Thomas's visit in 2000

3. Sierra Leone Diary - Report on Mike Thomas's visit in 2002

Mission Statement
The Mission of FIOH Sierra Leone is to co-ordinate and facilitate the efforts of village development groups by making them accessible to farming inputs, modern farming techniques, education and skills development programmes, sanitation and credit facilities for self-sustainability and self reliance.

Programme interventions - capacity building, food security, women and youth empowerment, environmental health and sanitation, advocacy.

 

Future in Our Hands Sierra Leone, 20 Lunsar Road, Makeni, Sierra Leone,
West Africa. EMail: fioh_sl@hotmail.com