Help 30 Hungry Villages in Gao-Mali Grow Food NOW!

Thank you for your generous support of Food First’s Help Hungry Villages Grow Food Now! Project. Your donation helps ensure that we can continue helping the communities in Gao, Mali.

In the interest of ensuring that your donation has the most impact for the farmers in Mali, we are shifting our fundraising from Global Giving directly to the Food First website. We hope you continue to invest as we move over to a more direct funding mechanism that allows us to give all of your donation directly to the project you care about.

Here is the link: http://foodfirst.org/support-farmers-in-mali/

Just like on Global Giving, we keep up to date information on our website and blog so you can stay informed about this project and the other work that we are doing here at Food First.

Here is an update from the Vice-President of the BERADA campaign, Alhousseini Maiga:

“The Food First-BERADA campaign has been welcomed by all parties involved and people do express their gratitude chiefly when they come together in the market places or in the rice harvest areas. These examples are typical:

• For example, one of the farmers who benefitted from the seeds campaign declared that he was able to purchase school supplies for his two daughters and his son for the first time in his life. He said:  Thank you to the Food First and BERADA campaign for Gao farmers.
• Two women who benefitted from the garden seeds campaign declared that they have been able to use part of the money they earned from sales of their vegetables to heal and take care of their daughters who were sick from malaria. That has been a great opportunity for them to provide this care all by themselves.

The Gao villagers hope this cooperation will continue because it is meeting people’s real needs and no doubt, it is consistent with their values, because Food First-BERADA is trying to help them help themselves with dignity.”

We hope that you will continue to donate to the project directly through our website. You can set up monthly donations just like on Global Giving, and we'll be happy to help you with this if you give us a call.

Thank you again for supporting Food First’s project in Gao, Mali.

With gratitude,

Joyce King, Board President

Eric Holt-Giménez, Executive Director

Alexandra Toledo, Development Director

Links:

• Food First new donation website