Frank.S Anthony Foundation is a social entrepreneurial venture dedicated to achieving comprehensive development of impoverished communities.
“Convert every village to a village of the Millennium”
We are driven to eradicate poverty and achieve food security in Sierra Leone by using agriculture as the principal industry.
Our Story
In 2007 we conducted a need assessment survey in Vaama, Pujehun District in Southern Sierra Leone. The village of 850 residents lacked good drinking water, electricity, healthcare and schools. The nearest school is five miles away with no transportation.
The residents are subsistence farmers who cultivate only 1.3 acres of rice farm per year using local farming equipment and manual labor. All the residents demonstrated strong desire to develop their community, and send their children to school.
We conducted a pilot consisting of ten small holder farmers. We rented a tractor and ploughed the 180 of rice field, provided high yielding rice seeds, and fertilizers enabling each household to grow 18 acres of rice farm.
As s result the farmers were able to increase their production exponentially through the use of tractors and high yield rice variety, and technical assistance.
We also learnt that the villagers were not looking for handouts but opportunity to develop their community.
Our approach to poverty alleviation
Sierra Leone lies in the rice belt of Africa, and it has approximately 100 million acres of arable land.
The foundation will provide micro loans to farmers to cover the cost of use of farm equipment, training, fertilizers, high yielding rice seeds and project management services provided by the foundation.
The foundation will be responsible for the day to day management of all projects from planting to marketing of produce.
Collaborate with our sister organization Salone Healthcare to provide healthcare services.
Provide electricity, which will be paid for by residents.
