Fund a Kitchen Garden For a Family in Need

The Nasio Trust's Kitchen Garden Appeal was successfully able to establish over 100 kitchen gardens across homesteads in Mumias West Sub-County. The gardens have been planted with kales, beans, and black nights shade - which are local to the region. Produce from the gardens is being used by households not only for consumption but also to earn an income through their sale. 

The Nasio Trust's community outreach and livelihoods team has continued planting kitchen gardens for those suffering from food insecurity. Over 10 new kitchen gardens have been sown in the last two months for families that are suffering from malnutrition. The youth trained by the charity in Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare have also been trained in setting up their own kitchen gardens to engage them in occupations that keep them safe and away from risk behaviours. 7 kitchen gardens have been established in the schools that the Nasio Trust partners with, led by teacher-patrons and young people taking the lead in the gardens' maintenance. 

We would like to thank everyone who has donated to support our Kitchen Garden project that has improved food security for over 100 families. 

Links:

• Visit our website to learn more about Nasio's projects

Thanks to your generous support, the Nasio Trust has been able to provide 68 families with kitchen garden equipment to set-up their own kitchen gardens. Kitchen gardens are a cheap and efficient means of improving food security amongst landless labourers or small-scale farmers in rural Kenya. Nasio's kitchen garden equipment includes indignenous varieties of seeds (including for vegetables such as pumpkin seeds, cowpeas, and kale) as well as basic gardening equipment such as a shovel. 

Families receiving the gardening equipment are trained its use to maximise the small peice of land they have, either in the village or in the peri-urban towns closeby such as Mumias. Kitchen gardens are sources of income and food as surplus produce can be sold in the local market. 

Young people like Gloria, a secondary school student in the Mumias West Sub County, have greatly benefitted from their personal kitchen gardens. She was trained by Nasio's agricultural team to maximise her father's small plot of land through kitchen-gardening. She has since succesfully grown kale and spinach, with enough left over for her to sell. Gloria has also helped train other young people like her in kitchen gardening. 

Links:

• Visit our website to learn more about Nasio's projects