Category: Sustainable Income-Generating

Harvesting Hope: Maize Growing and Capacity Building Initiative

The arrival of big bags of maize seed and fertilizer, purchased with your generous gifts, have signaled a new beginning, with the sustainable, income generating and nutritional Maize Growing project. The women committed to this industrious initiative have attended a three day competency-building training on agricultural and business practices in preparation for their work. The goal of the Maize Growing Initiative is to improve the quality of life for the people in Shikokho village, beginning with Yote Yawezekana women, in a productive, community-based and sustainable manner, through shared profits of the sale and use of maize as food. To date, the women have ambitiously worked together to plant seven acres of corn seed.

Recipient: Yote Yawezekana Women's Group - Kenya

Grant Amount: $ 2,498