Improve Livelihoods of 225 HIV-Affected Families

The year 2018 has started well and we remain optimistic that all will be well and especially weather conditions to favour our farmers.   Currently farmers are preparing their farms in readiness for planting in March and April when the long rains are expected.  Our beneficiaries are happy that at least they harvested some yields late December and January after a very challenging year in terms of weather conditions.   Although not all were able to enjoy the good yields, at least majority have some seeds to plant in the next season and some food to push them through as they wait for the rains.

 We have been conducting trainings and involving our beneficiaries in these trainings and they have requested us to build their capacity on nutrition.  We will be conducting the training where we will involve all our beneficiaries to ensure that their nutrition status is also checked.  We are happy that this far they have been doing well in terms of food and nutrition security.   Also together with our partners, we are in the process of preparing a project for them where we will distribute chicken to the beneficiaries to improve their nutrition and especially proteins which has been a challenge to many of them.  With the provision of chicken we will encourage them to make use of the eggs and occasionally chicken meat.  The project will also involve distribution of dairy goats again to ensure they have milk as well as earning some income from both chicken and goats.  It is our hope that the proposal will be accepted and we also invite our global giving friends to consider contributing towards this project.  Thank you all for your kind contributions and support to the less privileged we wish you all the best.

Our beneficiaries are proceeding on well and we have been visiting some of them and they appreciate the support given to them.  They are happy that the weather has really improved and favoured them in terms of crops production.  We have been involving them in trainings so as to build their capacities in crop production, agribusiness and general management.  We have been involving them in these trainings whenever we have them so that they also benefit and they have been very positive on the same.  Currently they have harvested some of their crops and they still have more in their farms.  It has been raining so they are planting new short term crops.  Water harvesting challenge has not been successful as they have not managed to raise funds to improve the situation.  At the moment they are practicing simple ground water harvesting and roof water harvesting since they lack proper equipment for better results.  We will continue working with them to identify how we can improve the situation with the little they have as we continue fundraising for the same.  As we conclude the challenging year, we remain optimistic that the situation will improve next year and since business and other sectors were affected by the elections, we  hope next year will be successful we thank God and all supporters for this far we have come and together we will go far.