Break Near-starvation Cycle for Congolese Farmers

CTD Calmly Continuing to Create Change Amid Worldwide Chaos

With our chaotic first world country troubled by protests, economic shutdowns, and a pandemic, living in a quiet village located in a green mountain valley just 2 hours from a bustling city of over a million people with temperature similar to Hawaii sounds ideal.

Our peaceful valley has no people protesting anything; the near-by armed soldiers tolerate no negative speech.

Our beautiful valley has no business/economic shutdowns; there is almost no money---therefore few businesses exist.

In this quiet valley, threat of a world-wide pandemic is unimportant; normal food-insecurity, known as near-starvation, is a common, yearly danger.

Opps! A different picture. Our perfect valley needs to be rescued!   

Thanks to you and your donations to CTD, the Kafubu Valley is being rescued! The armed soldiers are still in control and economic activity as we know it is still non-existent, but you are obliterating the threat of starvation!

*Over 150 families have benefited directly from CTD’s 4 objectives: top quality seed bred specifically for higher elevations, fertilizer, insecticide, and training in best farm practices from professional agronomists. Their harvests average a 400% increase over the past years!

*Trained farmers teach their neighbors best farming practices, helping everyone in the five local tribes. (A rising tide lifts all ships; an educated people teach their neighbors.)

*About 50% of project-benefited families have totally repaid their share of the costs. Others are repaying, but at a slower rate.

*Extreme flooding soon after the November 2019 planting destroyed some of the young corn plants. Normally this devastation would mean near-starvation again. Through CTD, families were provided with seed for alternative crops with a shorter growing season, such as beans and cabbage. 

*The school, which in not funded by the government, has many more students because parents can afford the minimal tuition. Such a blessing for the younger generation!

*Wonderful recurring donors mean CTD’s team can meet ongoing expenses during the entire growing year.

Even in these chaotic times, CTD continues to calmly create change for the people in our beautiful Kafubu Valley. Thank you! 

IF ONLY

IF you had millions or billions of dollars, what would you do with it? IF you were Bill Gates, you might choose to work toward eliminating malaria, a disease which kills millions of people each year. IF you were Howard Buffett, son of multi-billionaire Warren Buffett, you might choose to help Columbia kick its cocaine curse. IF. . . . IF. . . . IF. . . . IF only you had the money. . . . . . you, too, would choose to change lives!

And you CAN! And you DID! And you ARE changing lives!

Through your donation to Break Near-starvation Cycle for Congolese Farmers you have changed the lives of the poorest of the poor in Democratic Republic of Congo. Nearly 200 families have become self-sufficient. Lives changed. Their children are attending school. Generations changed!

2019 was a year of extreme political unrest throughout the Congo. Even the normally peaceful southeast Kafubu Valley was affected. An unusually early rainy season caused flooding in the valley. Sometimes our volunteer CTD agronomists could not safely visit the villages for weeks. Against great challenges, they delivered the hybrid seed and fertilizer in time for planting! The farm families who had previously been trained in effective farming techniques shared their newly learned skills with neighbors. In past years, the combination of floods, political danger, and no farming skills would have resulted in another famine. Working together, the people in Kafubu Valley reaped an adequate harvest. Lives were preserved!

Thank you for your donations. In 2019, you not only changed lives. You literally saved them!

IF you can, please donate today.