SIERRA LEONE 2008. Women using the traditional methods of threshing rice by simply grinding it with their feet or hands in a field just outside of Gbanka Potho, Bombali District. 

SIERRA LEONE 2008. Women of the Bombali District Famers Cooperative Association singing while carrying their rice back from the fields in Gbanka Potho, Bombali District. 

People making music for a dance to celebrate the harvest season in Gbanka Potho, Bombali District, Sierra Leone. 

A family eating a typical meal of rice in Gbanka Potho, Bombali District. 

SIERRA LEONE 2008. Bundles of harvested rice in a field just outside of Gbanka Potho, Bombali District. Rice is the most important staple crop in Sierra Leone. 

SIERRA LEONE 2008. A member of the Bombali District Famers Cooperative Association caryying a harvest of rice on her head just outside of Gbanka Potho, Bombali District. 

A family eating a typical meal of rice in Gbanka Potho, Bombali District. 

SIERRA LEONE 2008. Bundles of harvested rice in a field just outside of Gbanka Potho, Bombali District. Rice is the most important staple crop in Sierra Leone. 

SIERRA LEONE 2008. Members of the Bombali District Famers Cooperative Association using a mechanical thresher for their harvested rice in Gbanka Potho, Bombali District. 

SIERRA LEONE 2008. Young men carrying firewood through rice farms in Kondeya, Koinadugu District. 

SIERRA LEONE 2008. Members of the Bombali District Famers Cooperative Association using a mechanical thresher for their harvested rice in Gbanka Potho, Bombali District. 

Members of the Bombali District Famers Cooperative Association harvesting rice in the field outside of Gbanka Potho, Bombali District. The famers have no mechanized method of harvesting, and instead u 

A man from the Bombali District Famers Cooperative Association wrapping up a bundle of rice in the field outside of Gbanka Potho, Bombali District. The famers have no mechanized method of harvesting a 

SIERRA LEONE 2008. A young woman sick with malaria lying on a foam mattress outside her home in a shantytown in Aberdeen, Freetown. 

SIERRA LEONE 2008. A young boy watering his mother's vegetable garden outside of Kabala, Koinadugu District. 

SIERRA LEONE 2008. A young boy watering his mother's vegetable garden outside of Kabala, Koinadugu District. 

Women and children eating and chatting outside the Binkolo Health Center where they have received nutritional food supplements from the World Food Programme distribution center, inside. 

A mother and her baby at the Binkolo Health Center where women go to have their babies weighed and to receive nutritional supplemental foods from the center's World Food Programme distribution center 

SIERRA LEONE 2008. Cabbage leaves from a vegetable garden outside of Kabala, Koinadugu District. 

Mothers waiting to be seen at the Binkolo Health Center to have their babies weighed and to receive nutritional supplemental foods from the center's World Food Programme distribution center in Binkolo