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Economic Development > Preventing Malnutrition Among Women and Children (#3369)
Summary
BSHG is working, along with 200+ farmers, to ensure that rural Kenyans are self sufficient and able to feed themselves by educating and supporting local farmers on sustainable agricultural methods.
How Donors Like You Helped
Thanks to donors like you, a total of $325 was raised for this project. |
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The project addresses chronic malnutrition among the rural poor, in particular women and children. Through access to improved seed varieties, education, and training, the project ensures that cassava, a food staple threatened by disease, remains viable in the area. Beyond the immediate benefits of food security, the project also ensures local self sufficiency, increases household incomes, passes on vital life skills, keeps children in school, and improves the health of the community.
Demonstration plots will be created and cuttings provided to farmers, along with training on cassava varieties, production, marketing and value addition. This allows the community to create businesses around a crop currently only grown for survival.
Total Funding Received to Date: $325
This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.
Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $325 . The original project funding goal was $5,000.
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
The whole community will improve as malnutrition declines and income sources increase. For example, women will be able to use the skills learned and apply them to other areas, enabling them to diversify their income sources through micro-businesses.
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- Melisa Nabwire, Beneficiary
Vincent Atitwa
Founder
vincentatitwa@yahoo.com
vincentatitwa@gmail.com
Mumias, Kenya 66-50117 koyonzo-mumias.
Kenya
+254734928060
Email:
Brothers Self Help Group
n/a n/a
Mumias,
Nairobi
Box 4 or 66 – 50117
Kenya
+254734928060
http://sites.google.com/site/kenyangrassrootsproject/Home/brothers-self-help-group
This project is located in Kenya
and can also be found under Economic Development.
For more information about Kenya, read the Human Development Report on Kenya or the Wikipedia entry for Kenya.
This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on July 26, 2009
By vincent atitwa - project coordinator, September 02, 2009 10:25 AM
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