by aweberdev | Jul 23, 2026 | Growing Prosperity
Aminata Kamara from Gbom Limba, and Mohamed Conteh from Rogbesseh, were recruited into the second class of COFA’s Growing Family Prosperity agriculture program in the 2023/2024 season, among 25 new households that year. In 2026 the project has grown to 100 households,...
by aweberdev | Mar 1, 2026 | Agriculture
Just outside of Lunsar—the hub for most of COFA’s projects—the Jassine Banana and Willpower Farm is rising under the skillful hands of Mohammed Morlai Conteh, aka MC, a trained agronomist. Karim Kamara, the force behind our Sierra Leone projects, has provided guidance...
by aweberdev | Nov 5, 2025 | Ending Period Poverty in Ghana
Introducing the ASAA Foundation, COFA’s new partner. It’s all about ending “period poverty” in Ghana. Agnes Serwah Ofori-Boateng, a teacher in Suhum, a suburban town in Ghana, saw the effect of lack of access to menstrual supplies on girls at her school: repeated...
by aweberdev | Jul 28, 2025 | News
I first met the widows at the town of Mile 91 in October 2023. Karim Kamara, the mastermind of COFA projects in Sierra Leone, had taken me to Mile 91 to meet the primary school children who had been part of Nourishing Young Minds and Bodies, the summer school program,...
by aweberdev | May 29, 2025 | Growing Prosperity
In late 2022, 30 families in six villages formed the inaugural class of Growing Family Prosperity, COFA’s grassroots agriculture program. A year later, 25 more families in five villages were recruited. The material investment—seeds, tools, fertilizer, goats, and...
