Impact

MMW has been advocating for women and girls in Sierra Leone for over 12 years. Over this period we have impacted thousands of lives, through informational podcasts, connecting people to local services and guiding women and girls through the local legal or medical process.

After 12 years of distributing podcasts across rural areas of Sierra Leone, in 2026, we averaged more than 60,000 listens every month. This reach has been achieved through our network of local, trusted community champions spreading our podcasts throughout their local neighborhoods.

DigiTruck Salone Programme

In our 2024/2025 cohort, we conducted the baseline survey with:

Western Rural District- A total number of 200 girls were reached.

Bombali District- A total number of 200 girls were reached.

Kenema District- A total number of 200 girls were reached.

Karene District (Kamasondo)- A total number of 30 girls were reached.

In our first digitruck cohort (2024/2025), 316 girls were reached and 31 female entrepreneurs.

MMW Journalist Alinah Kallon facilitates a discussion between rural community members on gender equality and economic empowerment

From Our Listeners

“I was determined to give birth to a child even though I’m not well prepared. But because almost all of my friends have children, I wanted the same. But when I started listening to different programs from MMW, I have changed my mind and I will wait till I complete my [school] course.”

IK

Listener at Women Advocacy, Agricultural and Development Organization Listening Centre, Waterloo

“The impact that MMW has done for me is so great, MMW always says that women have rights and everyone needs to stand up for them. I had some problems between me and my husband, my husband was beating me. Since MMW has started to work in my chiefdom he has stopped beating me, as he learnt through MMW’s podcast that if he keeps beating me I can take him to court.”

CK

Listener from Kangula Chiefdom, Kenema

Impact Stories

Kenema: Widow Wins Land Rights

Women in Sierra Leone have long faced land ownership discrimination. Despite a new land rights law enacted in the summer of 2022 that promoted gender equality, many women remain deprived of the right to own inherited land. In response to a podcast about women’s rights, Hawa, a widow who lives in a Kenema district village, approached Zainab Sheriff, MMW Makeni Senior Journalist, about her struggle to take possession of inherited land. It had been confiscated by her uncle, Pa Bockarie. The dispute had been stuck in the court system for nearly three years. Sheriff’s extensive research and reporting led to a podcast that included this and several other examples of land rights disputes affecting women in rural Sierra Leone. Sheriff’s investigation resulted in the local village chief inviting three chiefs from nearby villages to discuss the case. They resolved it, awarding the land to Hawa.

Makeni: MMW Consortium Demand Justice For Rape Of Young Girl

In May 2022, Jane Kamara (not her real name), an 8-year-old child, was sexually assaulted by a driver for one of the banks in Makeni, who threatened to kill her if she told anyone about the assault. MMW, as part of a consortium of the Community of Practice (COP) composed of gender-based and child-protection activists, took the lead in pushing for justice for Jane. Due to MMW’s persistence and advocacy, the perpetrator was eventually arrested and sentenced to 20 years in jail on one count of sexual penetration. MMW’s diligent action, supported by the COP consortium in Sierra Leone, shows how community organizing is key to confronting serious societal problems such as sexual violence.