Our Projects
From trust to transformation, we empower communities to thrive.
Born from a simple yet powerful act of trust, SEED empowers vulnerable communities through entrepreneurship, peacebuilding, health, climate action, and sustainable agriculture helping people build resilient livelihoods and dignified futures.
What we care for
Unlocking women’s potential through access, skills, and opportunity.
Poor women are as gifted with entrepreneurial and creative skills as anybody else, but have often been underemployed for lack of access to lands and other productive resources. SEED is providing small loans and business skills training to assist them in exploring and developing their skills and engaging in productive micro enterprises, micro credit can generate employment, income and contributes to national development goals.
Empowering Communities to Reject Hate and Protect Peace.
Presidential and parliamentary elections in post-conflict Sierra Leone are often marked by hateful rhetoric, dangerous speech, and intense power struggles, partly rooted in ethnicity. After elections, inflammatory speech by party supporters is increasingly alarming and threatens the country’s fragile peace. SEED is working with local communities to understand hate and dangerous speech and to collectively prevent and address this growing challenge. We address dangerous speech through media campaigns, including producing and airing radio soap operas and forming radio listening groups. These initiatives share information on dangerous speech, its implications, and community roles in countering hate. We also organize town hall meetings uniting politicians and community stakeholders to discuss post-election challenges.
Protect Mangroves, Sustain Communities, Preserve Future
Rapid population growth in Sierra Leone’s coastal areas is accelerating mangrove loss, particularly in the Sherbro River Basin. Coastal populations have increased by an estimated 30% over the past two decades, while Sierra Leone has lost nearly 20% of its mangrove cover due to land conversion, fuel wood use, rice farming, construction poles, fish smoking, oyster harvesting, and salt processing. SEED supports 10 coastal communities in Bonthe District by training residents in sustainable oyster harvesting, providing vegetable seedlings, and promoting alternative livelihoods. These interventions are reducing pressure on mangroves, strengthening conservation, and improving household incomes while safeguarding vital coastal ecosystems.