by Editor
by Lucretia Humphrey
Venturing away from our families over the Christmas holidays, Blake Lipsett and I, as Right Sharing of World Resources (RSWR) board members, traveled to Sierra Leone, West Africa—one of three countries where RSWR maintains a presence. Blake and I were staying in Bo, a town about 150 miles from the capital city of Freetown. We were making “pastoral” visits to some of the projects that are funded by RSWR in this small country. Pastoral visits are a way of letting our Sierra Leone partners know that we care about the work they are doing with the micro-grants that we have given them. We listen to the women who work together in cooperatives, we walk to their rice fields, and we join them in meals.
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