Sustainable Food Project for Children in Kenya

I would love to share yet another update of a woman working on our project. Attached is the photo of Mama Susan, she started working with us in 2019 until now and is happy with her work knowing the impact of the project in her life. Today she is harvesting fresh cowpeas from our garden ready to go to market while the other women are busy weeding and watering and planting some seeds.

Mama Susan is one of many women whose work here has transformed her life for the better, she has been a widow for 15 years taking care of her four children. With no job available she used to walk to the neighborhood and seek any job she could find so as to get at least food to feed her kids. As these unsecured  jobs were not even easily available, the family could not afford three meals a day leading to her kids being malnourished and not being able to attend school on a daily basis. Medication issues were another far reaching milestone for her.

Securing a job in our projects has been a life-saving medicine in her life, I am happy to report that Mama Susan is "graduating" from poverty state life to a sustainable state life. She loves the fact that she has a job that is secure for her from where she can get her daily bread and learn more about agriculture. She is now in a position to eat well, take her kids to school and happily live a dignified life that every woman deserves. She says she is in a position to even do a little saving to help her in an emergency, WHAT AN IMPACT!!!  Thank you so much for helping us put a smile on their faces and hope back into their lives.   We are so grateful for your support.

The team here at the American Foundation for Children with AIDS thanks you for supporting this project and the work we do for the children in Africa.  As you start to make decisions regarding your end of year giving, please keep us in mind so we can continue our good work into 2023 and beyond.  We wish you a new year full of many blessings and as much hope as you have shared with us.  If you would like to learn even more about what we do or how you can meet some of the children you have helped, please contact Tanya Weaver at tweaver@AFCAids.org. 

Our garden project, which not only provides food for our children at the orphanage, but directly benefits 22 by working and selling our produce. We are happy to report that we are transforming more than 150 lives through our garden and rice project. We stand out from the rest of the farmers in our community because we keep producing organic vegetables by using organic pesticides and organic farming which is healthy food for our clients.

Through appreciative inquiry exercises we've kept our garden doing better in production, we learn and inquire and seek advice from others to make sure we stand out. Through our garden, 120 children are able to attend school, fees for 5 high school girls are able to be paid and the kids at our orphanage are eating balanced diet food that is healthy for their body growth.

Thanks to the support that AFCA has shown to this project from the beginning.  Through our working together, the fruits of our effort are being felt in the community and we are still determined to make sure that this project stands on its own.

Everyone here at the American Foundation for Children with AIDS, and our partners in Africa, thank you for your continued support of this important project.  If you would like to learn even more about this project and others, please contact Tanya Weaver at tweaver@AFCAids.org.