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Meet the newly empowered women of Sierra Leone |
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SIERRA LEONE (KGO) -- Advances for women have been slow to come in many developing countries, but in a recent trip to West Africa, we witnessed how women are helping the nation of Sierra Leone rise from the ashes of civil war with support from aid groups with ties here in the Bay Area.
In the rural countryside of Sierra Leone, rice is the primary crop grown to nourish and sustain the people, but in many communities, their simply isn't enough. And with so many hungry children, there's often nothing extra to bring to the bustling markets that sprout from town centers every Saturday and little money to buy what the vendors there have to sell.
Another staple here is a root called cassava, similar to sweet potato. Like rice, it's grown in fields often tended by women.
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