Rocco Falconer examining a cassava harvest at Sherifullah village, near Makeni, Sierra Leone.  Planting Promise sponsor a school at Sherifullah. Planting Promise is an organization dedicated to the development of education in Sierra Leone. Its aim is to bring opportunities to initiate self-run, self-supporting projects that offer real solutions to the difficulties facing the world's poorest country. They believe real and lasting development comes from below, from local projects that address specific needs, rather than large international models. To this end, they currently run five projects that aim to bring wealth into the country through business. The profits from these businesses are then used to support free education for children and adults...Through the combination of business with social progress, the charity hopes that they are providing real, lasting and profound changes for the better, by promoting sustainable and beneficial industry in the country, and putting it to the service to the needs of the people. As well as providing the income to fund the school, the farms will also be an example of successful commercial enterprise to teach the children in the school the viability of profit-making schemes that go beyond subsistence models, the only things the children of these desperately poor areas are accustomed to. By learning particular details of the challenges that they will face, the children will emerge from this school equipped to contribute in a real way to their society.
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