Food Security Nigeria Project #53856

Youth Farming to Eliminate Hunger in Rural Nigeria

by Lady Mitz Foundation

Youth Farming to Eliminate Hunger in Rural Nigeria

Project Report | Sep 14, 2023
LMF Youth Farming September Report 2023

By Mercy Egbuchulam-Onyianta | Project Leader

TO: Our LMF Team Of Heroes,

It is my pleasure to bring you another progress report on our Youth Farming Project for this quarter, September 2023.

Recap

In response to program demands, ten 2022 youth farmers, now back, each received a small LMF farm plot to apply learned techniques, paired with new trainee volunteers. The aim is for farmers to practice and coach volunteers and give them the opportunity to practice what they’ve learned in the program. In 2023,10 volunteers followed the program with 10 new farmers, receiving supervision to maintain schedules and momentum in learning farm skills. All 20 receive a monthly stipend throughout the program.

Practice What You Have Learned

The corn planted in June will be ready for harvest in two weeks as it has reached full maturity. The vegetables and pumpkins have also matured and were harvested twice. The cassava plants are thriving and will be harvested early next year. Additionally, farmers and volunteers were encouraged to bring and apply local ash to deter insects and pests.

NEXT STEP:

Harvesting of Crops

Discussion Sessions on Farm Progress/Challenges

The youth are making significant progress thanks to your support. Your donations, combined with the matched funds contributed by GlobalGiving, enable us to sustain this program. We are immensely grateful, and together, our impact is creating a profound difference in the lives of these youth, their families, and the community as a whole. Please accept our heartfelt appreciation, feel proud, and take comfort in knowing that your contributions are truly meaningful to these youths, to LMF, to humanity, and to God. Amen!

Furthermore, I'm pleased to inform you that we will be hosting our Annual Fundraising Campaign Marathon this September, in conjunction with the GlobalGiving Little by Little 50/50 Funds Matching Campaign next week (September 18th – 22nd, 2023). It's truly a blessing that every $50 donation made to our Youth Farming project by a donor will be matched with $25 (50/50) by GlobalGiving throughout the campaign next week (9/18-9/22). We're excited and eagerly anticipate your support. Our goal is to raise $5,000 this week for our Youth Farming Projects, enabling them to provide sustainable food for themselves, their families, and communities, with the aim of eradicating hunger. You are our partner, and together, we can achieve success. Amen!

The youth rely on LMF, and we rely on you to support our fundraising endeavors. YOU are the reason Lady Mitz Foundation continues to flourish. I'm counting on you, as well as each of our donors, including myself, to contribute $50 during this campaign and encourage a friend to do the same. Your donation not only provides food and agricultural training for the youth but also instills hope and a means of livelihood in them. I want to express my gratitude in advance for your kindness and generosity. May God continue to bless you. Amen!

Additionally, please consider signing up for monthly donations whenever possible. In addition to ensuring a consistent source of funding year-round, new recurring donations receive a one-time 100% match after four months. LMF relies on every penny to bolster and sustain our programs.

Conclusion

Donate during the campaign from Monday, September 18th, through Friday, September 22nd, 2023, to ensure that funds will be matched. GlobalGiving will only match funds during this specific campaign period.

If possible, contribute $50 to ensure your donation qualifies for the matching program.

Encourage a friend to donate $50 in support of our youth farming project.

Consider signing up for monthly donations (please note that GlobalGiving's website minimum is $10.00).

Share the achievements of our youth and encourage a friend or two to make a donation.

Once again, I express my gratitude for your thoughtfulness, kindness, and generosity. You are an integral part of LMF's Team of Heroes, and our youth will forever be grateful to you. May you always remain blessed. Amen!

We will continue to keep you informed about the progress of the project. If you have any comments, questions, or input, please feel free to direct them to us, and we will do our best to provide answers and assistance.

Mercy Egbuchulam- Onyianta Prince Chiwuba

Founder- Lady Mitz Foundation Project Lead & Coach Nigeria

Links:

LMF Youths Farming Project Message to Donors

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Jul 11, 2023
LMF Youth Farming 2nd Report 2023

By Mercy Egbuchulam-Onyianta | Project Leader

TO: Our LMF Team Of Heroes,

I am pleased to bring you the progress report on our Youth Farming to Eliminate Hunger project for this next quarter, June 2023. We have created a modified approach that will better suit the community’s need and demand.

Ten of Lady Mitz Foundation’s (LMF) newly trained Youth Farmers from the 2022 cohort have returned to farming and have been assigned individual small portions of LMF leased farm land for their own practical experience. They are using the techniques and strategies they have learned through our educational programs to make a mini vegetable farm, growing a vegetable of their choice. Each Youth Farmer has been paired with a volunteer to assist them. The Youth Farmers will also coach these volunteers on concepts they have learned. These 10 volunteers are the newcomers of the 2023 cohort and all of them are routinely scheduled to receive supervision from the Master Coach, to ensure that they stay within guidelines, schedules and routines, in order to keep the momentum going.

Practice What You Have Learned

1. Conferences about what concepts have worked and what did not work to decide what should be kept and what improvements should be made

2. Portion of LMF Leased land to be divided amongst the Youth Farmers and have them choose a vegetable to grow in their land and build their farm around. A physical representation of what they have learned

3. Choose a Volunteer partner from New Volunteers (2023 Cohort)

4. Enlightenment of the Youth Farmers on the objectives and goals of the project

5. Land Clearing and Preparation

6. Training / Orientations for New Youth Volunteers

7. Procurement of farm tools.

Making of beds, ridges, and mounds to protect crops from rain actions and possible flooding
Planting and cultivation (after rainfall)

Next Steps:

Early introduction of maize will help in the improvement of soil nutrients through nitrogen fixation before the introduction of other cash crops such as pumpkins, water leaves, okra, etc.

Building of scarecrows in the farms to ward off birds and other pests
Building fences around the farms to keep out and deter intruders and stray animals.
Maintaining the farm (ex: getting rid of weeds)

It is because of your support that we were able to continue our program. We are asking for your ongoing help to support our youth on how to farm, sustainably feed themselves, their families and communities in an effort to eliminate hunger. We cannot do it without your help. Your donations will provide our Youth Farmers with stipends to use for upkeep to continue maintenance of their farm throughout our project.

YOU are why Lady Mitz Foundation continues to thrive. YOU are the reason behind the smiling faces of an abundance of youths in the Umunoha community. You didn’t just feed and train them; you have given them hope and a means of livelihood. They are now very happy and excited to go out and practice what they have learned after the rainfall. On behalf of the entire LMF Community, I give you an appreciative round of applause and a heartwarming thank you. I pray that God continues to bless each and every one of you more and more, Amen!

The youth depend on LMF and we depend on you to support our fundraising efforts. Our next fundraising campaign is GlobalGiving’s Bonus Day, on July 12^,2023. A one-day campaign to incentivize major donors with a tiered matching structure for donations $100 USD and up and a focus on major donors.

We also encourage you to consider monthly donations because besides guaranteeing available funds, year-round, new recurring donations earn a one-time 100% match after four months. We can’t do it without your help and support. Join LMF in the race to raise funds for our project and help us get our donations matched, as well. This campaign is designed to celebrate high-dollar donors and as well as help us move our smaller-dollar donors up to new giving heights. The minimum donations on this campaign are $100 USD, and donations from $100 - $499 will get 15% in matching funds. Donations of $500 - $749 will get 30% in matching funds, while $749 - $1000 will get 50 %in matching funds (While funds last).

I am asking for your help to assist our youth in the following ways, please:

Donate on before 11:00 am on July 12, 2023 to ensure funds will be matched, as GlobalGiving will only match funds while supplies last
If possible, donate more than $100 to ensure donations will be matched
Sign up for monthly donations (GlobalGiving website minimum is $10.00)
Share the work of our youths and encourage a friend or two to donate.

God Bless You, Amen!

Consistent support is the key to ensure ongoing impact. Please also share this with your contacts and invite them to consider supporting this worthy project. Together we will continue to create an impact on people, one village at a time. Amen!

Once again, I thank you for your thoughtfulness, kindness and generosity. You are part LMF’s Team of Heroes and our youth are forever grateful to you. Remain always blessed, Amen!

We will keep you informed about the progress of the project. If you have any comments, questions, or input, please feel free to direct them to us, and we will answer as best we can.

Mercy Egbuchulam- Onyianta Prince Chiwuba

Founder of Lady Mitz Foundation Project Lead & Coach Nigeria

Links:

NTA Nigeria Local News on LMF

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Mar 22, 2023
LMF YOUTH FARMING REPORT 2023 March

By Mercy Egbuchulam-Onyianta | Project Leader

TO: Our LMF Esteem Heroes,

It is with great joy and pleasure that I bring to you “A Year in Review” for Lady Mitz Foundation. I am proud to tell you that, because of the kindness and generosity of partners like you and GlobalGiving, we were able to raise $11, 209.28 of our $50,000 budget in 2022. It is because of your support that we were able to train 20 youths this past year on how to farm, feed oneself, family and community and eliminate hunger. Thanks to your kindness, these youths were able to plant a maize farm. As well as grow, harvest and share their fresh farm produce with the community.

You are why Lady Mitz Foundation (LMF) continues to thrive and the reason behind the smiling faces of so many youths in the Umunoha community. You didn’t just feed and train them; you have given them hope and a means of livelihood. They are now very happy and excited to go out and practice on their own, what they have learned this past year, and can’t wait for the rain to fall already so they can get started. On behalf of the entire Lady Mitz Foundation Community, I give you a resounding kudos and a heartwarming thank you. I pray that God continues to bless each and every one of you more and more, Amen!

Our youths successfully completed their practical training on the farm (hands-on coaching and learning) last year in 2022. They planted a corn farm, grew, harvested, had a feast with the community and shared their farm produce (picture are below).

Next Phase (The Goal for 2023)

Practice What You Learnt

Each newly trained Farmer will be assigned a little portion of LMF leased Farm land for their personal practical experience to use the techniques and strategies they have learned and make a mini- vegetable Farm of choice. They will choose a vegetable of their choice and also choose a volunteer to assist them who they will also coach on what they have learned. They will have supervision from the Master Coach to make sure that they stay with Guidelines, schedule and keep routine and momentum going well. They following Schedule are in Progress.

1. Conference / Meetings and talks about what worked and what did not work /improvements

2. Partition of LMF Leased land Amongst individual youths to choose a vegetable of their choice and build their farm to represent their own practical experience of what they learned.

3. Choose a Volunteer partner from New Volunteers (3^rd Cohort)

4. Sensitization and enlightenment of the youth farmers on the objectives and goals of the project

5. Land Clearing and Preparation

6. Training / Orientations for New Youth Volunteers

5 Procurement of farm tools.

Planting and cultivation (After the Rain Falls)

We have entered the next phase of LMF Youths Farming to Eliminate Hunger Project and we can’t do it without your help and support. I Therefore, use this opportunity to make appeal and ask for your continued support during our upcoming April-Little-by Little Matching Funds Campaign. This campaign starts on April 3 -7, 2023 for one week and GlobalGiving will match each $50 donated to our project with $50 (50% ) per Donor. When you donate $50 to our Youths Farming Project, it will get $100 and that will go along way to proving our youths with their needs to continue to thrive with the project.

Consistent support is the key to ensure ongoing impact. Please also share this with your contacts and invite them to consider supporting this worthy, ongoing project. Together we will keep impacting life one village at a time, Amen!

Once again, I thank you for your thoughtfulness, kindness and generosity. You are LMF Team of Heroes and our youths are forever grateful to you, while you remain always blessed, Amen!

We will keep you informed about the progress of the project. If you have any comments, advice, or question, please feel free to direct them to us, and we will answer as best we can.

Mercy Egbuchulam- Onyianta Prince Chiwuba

Founder- Lady Mitz Foundation Project Leader & Coach Nigeria

Target: Youths Category: Food Security

Project Location: Umunoha Mbaitoli LGA, Imo State, Nigeria

Links:

LMF Youths Farming Project Cohort 2023

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