Combating Climate Change with Agroecology

Dear Donor,

Since we first started the moringa project, we have distributed thousands of Moringa seedlings and used local trainers to conduct trainings for over 30 women’s groups in Western Kenya in areas of widespread malnutrition. 

Within the Kar Geno Moringa Project, over 12,000 Moringa trees have been planted in Western Kenya covering almost 5 hectares that will be capable of producing 50kg of Moringa powder per month. The women’s group powder the leaves supplying Moringa powder to the Kipsongo Project serving the Kipsango Slums and through programs with Joshua Machinga of Common Ground for Africa (37kg).

With a large population of children living with Sickle Cell Anemia in Muhuru Bay, we set up the Sickle Cell Anemia Initiative with Mama Maria Clinic and Hospital in 2016. Over 30kg of Moringa powder is regularly supplied and our trainer, Raphine Onyango Muga, organized and trained parents of children with Sickle Cell Anemia in growing the “miracle” tree. 

This is where we ask for your help. To buy the powdered moringa to provide to children who are malnourished, we need donations to keep this all going as a social enterprise for women's groups who support their families. 

A one-time donation or subscribing as some of you have done is so helpful to keep the goodness flowing.

Thank for your support,

Shana 

Links:

• Moringa Tree Project

Dear Donor,

We are always happy to report on the moringa project since once a tree is planted, it grows. It also continues to nourish and provide an income to women who grow the trees.

This last planting was again for Muhuru Bay with the families who have children with Sickle Cell Anemia. The Sickle Cell Warriors as they are known, are families with the challenge of caring for critically ill children who need better nutrition to keep them from life threatening crisis’s. The parents grow the trees and learned how to care for them this last month. The last plants were planted at Mama Maria Clinic and Hospital.  This project puts the power in the hands and its planted at their homes to have ready access to this powerful nutrition. 

For those of you who supported this program, we are asking that you consider another donation or even a monthly subscription. We are buying moringa powder from the Kar Geno Women's Group in Asembo to provide the children of the Kipsongo slums who eat mainly corn porridge with no protein. The feeding program is for pre school children because of the high incidence of malnutrition. Malnutrition when not caught is chronic and it will effect the children their entire life. Moringa is truly a miracle according to those who provide the supplement of moringa in the children's porridge daily.

The benefits of a monthly subscription will fortify a child to face the world they live in with the intellectiual capacity they were born with and the stature they were meant to have. 

Thank you,

Shana