Masimbo Agricultural Community Development Programme (M.A.C.De.P) is non-governmental, nonpolitical, and a non-profit, Community based organization formed by the Community of Patebana Masimbo. The community comprised of seven village in the Bombali - shebora and Makari - Gbanthi chiefdoms in the Bombali district, northern province of Sierra Leone. The villages are Patebana Masimbo, Romankneh Mathaineh, Mabureh, Makapri 1&2, Mayorba, Matak and Makama respectively. These villages had common ideas together and work things collectively. That is the reason they form the organization.
MISSION; Empower rural communities through sustainable agricultural practices, and economic opportunity by supporting community-led initiative's
VISION : Rural communities are empowered to shape their own future through innovative and sustainable agricultural development.
Our Agricultural Focus
Women in Agriculture
Women play a significant role in the agriculture sector at Patebana community. In upland farming, they are involved in all activities beginning from clearing the land to harvesting and marketing food crops. They represent 70 percent of the agricultural labor force and do all the cooking for workers in the farm. Their role does not only stop by working in the field but also play a significant role in natural resource management.
Women's Group
Masimbo women farmers are disadvantaged in many ways that limits their farming potential and increase the level of poverty in the community. They have limited rights to land except in isolated cases. This is because the land tenure system in the Temne (tribe) societies grants the right to own and dispose of the land to adult men. In facts, women rights to own farming lands are often ties through to their husbands and these rights may cease to exist upon divorce, widowhood, or failure to have a son.
Women's Group Leader- Zainab Kanu
Bombali District Education Committee (BDEC) PRIMARY SCHOOL- PATEBANA MASIMBO
Masimbo Swamp rice farming
Samp rice farming is the main source of Rice production in the area. The upland farming has been limited becuase, the Makeni City is extending to the surbuban villages. It is extremely difficult to construct houses to the swamps lands. Therefore, the land owners reserve the swmp lands for rice production in the rainy season and use those swamps for the production of vegetabes, potatoes and cassava in the dry season.
TOTAL NUMBERS OF FARM FAMILY PER HOUSEHOLD FOR PATEBANA MASIMBO VILLAGE
Extended family type; 18 per household
Single parent family; 6 per household
Nuclear family; 10 - per household
NO OF HOUSES PER VILLAGE COMMUNITY
Patebana Masimbo villge= 80 houses; and 1 primary School
Romankneh Mathaineh Village = 30 houses, No School
Mabureh village=50 houses and 1 primary school
Makapri 1=32 houses and 1 primary school
Makapri 2= 27 houses; no school
Mayorbah village =54 houses; 1 primary and 1 junior sec. school
Matak Village = 28 houses, no school
Makama town = 155 houses; 3 primary and2 secondary school.