HELP WISDOM TO FARM

“Help Wisdom to Farm” is one of the projects very dear to Totally Youth. This is because the agriculture sector has so much opportunity for unemployed youth. Farming can engage thousands of youth with different expertise – soil experts, crop experts, labourers for weeding, planting and harvesting, marketing and sales professionals, ICT experts, and many more. With over 83,000 graduates being produced annually, the agriculture sector can be a substantive employer and a haven for young entrepreneurs. We therefore want to support as many youth as possible to enter this sector as employees or entrepreneurs. Wisdom is just one of such young needy entrepreneur and we hope that his success, will bring on board his peers. Your continuing support for Wisdom will be very much appreciated. Recurrent donations could be as little as US$25.00 a month.

Through Global Giving, we have been able to raise US$75.00 (seventy five US dollars), in 90 days from our donors. This helped towards the provision of T&T and meals for Wisdom. Fortunately, Wisdom has been offered a small piece of land. We are currently following up with the requisite authorities to ensure that he gets it sooner than later, with all requisite legal documents, to facilitate his farming business. He will still need equipment, tools and seed money to become a self-reliant, successful farmer. His farming business will open career opportunities to a minimum of 100 unemployed youth of different categories within one year.

Wisdom is an unemployed young Farmer who has been in and out of jobs for several years due to recruitment caps and layoffs. He desperately wants to start his own farm so that he can stop living in poverty. Without support from Totally Youth, Wisdom could end up homeless and all his acquired skills and determination will come to naught. He depends fully on Totally Youth for free boarding and lodging. Without additional support, he may end up with a hand-to-mouth existence, depending solely on the revenue from the TY Backyard vegetable farm. The only good news is that, hopefully harvesting and selling the produce of his first vegetables will boost his self-confidence and give him hope for a better future which is yet to come.

Within the above context, we will be grateful if Global Giving’s donor community will consider supporting the “Help Wisdom To Farm” micro-project, even though it has been retired. We can together, continue to give the youth an opportunity to become responsible citizens by empowering them with employment. You can do this by donating to our project:

http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/stop-youth-poverty 

We thank all our donors for their continuing support and trust that we will find more recurrent donors so we can keep our support to Wisdom and other needy youth going. Thank you.

With gratitude,

Eva Lokko/CEO