The project is to help poor women in the North of Burkina Faso ( yatenga) region become more self-sufficient and able to provide food for themselves and their families. The project ensures year-round access to vegetables and fruit through the establishment of small home vegetable gardens. The ability to grow their own food gives women confidence and freedom to pursue higher goals. Often, they can sell excess yields to supplement their incomes and send their children to school or access health
Burkina Faso is one of the poorest countries in the world, with 38 percent of the population living on less than $1.25 per day. Poverty is especially pronounced in the rural areas, where women not only work in the agricultural sector, but also take care of their families. Since 2015 in the problem become more important in the North because of terrorists attacks , many families are translocated because of the insecurity in the region. These families face hunger, poverty, and kids leave schools.
The one-year Permagarden Program will serve 400 individuals directly and 2,800 indirectly, since the average woman has seven dependents (her own children and, often, orphans). Participants will be recruited and organized through community meetings. Hundred percent are expected to be women. The goal of the program is for 85 percent, or 340, of these 400 participants to establish permagardens, enjoy improved food security, adopt at least three productive practices and utilize beneficial water.
At long-Term, permagarden program will improve the live of 2800 poorer persons in the North especially because of their poverty and vulnerability to terrorists attacks. this project will permit to 400 families to send their kids to school approximately 1200 kids will be able to go to school, every year. every women beneficiting from this program will be able to transmit it to at least one women, at long term about 800 women will learn permagarden and the number will be increase every next year.
