Donate: FARM - Africa

FARM-Africa works at a grassroots level with rural communities in eastern Africa, providing long term solutions to poverty. By working with farmers and herders to introduce new and innovative ways to increase food production and manage natural resources, we aim to improve their food security in a sustainable way. Over the past twenty years, we have become experts in rural farming in Africa – and are enabling more communities than ever before to access the benefits of our knowledge and experience. Focusing on those who need our help the most, our flexible approach is easily adapted to suit the different individuals and communities that we work with. Most Africans are small holder farmers - relying on just a few hectares to feed their families and grow surplus crops for sale. FARM-Africa invests in new technologies such as improved seeds and combines them with key skill training and access to water to irrigate land. We believe these are the corner stones to helping these farmers find a permanent way out of poverty – enabling them to be self sufficient and feed their families without the need for handouts. The 12 million pastoralists living in arid regions of Kenya and Ethiopia have one of the highest rates of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. Traditionally reliant on their livestock to survive, frequent droughts and lack of access to animal healthcare is damaging their livelihoods. By providing access to affordable veterinary care and enabling them to develop new livelihoods, FARM-Africa is helping pastoralists become self sufficient and access key education and health services. An increased population and demands on natural resources has led to a huge depletion of East Africa’s natural forest. FARM-Africa is working with forest communities in Tanzania and Ethiopia who were traditionally reliant on wood products, to provide the tools and training they need to pursue alternative livelihoods. Activities such as raffia weaving, honey production and harvesting wild coffee are all ways that forest dwellers can earn the money they need to survive whilst protecting the forest that surrounds them. As an international NGO we have offices in London, Nairobi and Addis Ababa from where we run our programme of innovative work in Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania and Southern Sudan. We are reliant on voluntary donations – so if you would like to support our innovative work then please click here. Source: http://www.farmafrica.org.uk/