Sustainable Food Project for Children in Kenya

Our small food garden project has been so successful!  Children have their hands in caring for the gardens and are helpful in preparing the crops for the kitchen.  There are several varieties of vegetables planted in this garden.

We continue to fight agaist hunger and have plowed land to prepare for more gardens.  The gardens will produce much needed food for the orphanage, kids at the school and HIV+ women.  Some of the crops will be sold to cover the additional costs in some of our other projects. 

The last harvest provided some money for porridge for the HIV+ children at the school.  Some of the children were not active in class due to hunger.  Childen were collapsing in class and could not concentrate well.  The porridge was introduced so they can be attentive in class.  The porridge also helps the medication work better.  Our parnter is sure that the food from the garden will sustain the porridge progam.

Our teams here at the American Foundation for Children with AIDS and our partners in Africa thank you for supporting this project and the work we do for the children in in our programs.  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. 

AFCA supporters recently completed an educational challenge “PassMyPlate” promoting awareness of how extreme poverty, defined by the World Bank at $1.90 or less a day, has resulted in a hunger epidemic affecting millions around the world.  Living in a nation of tremendous affluence, we tend to forget that countless numbers of people around the globe do not have the choices we take for granted every day. Trying to sustain on $1.90 or less per day might mean living on one meal a day without a choice of what that meal is—and without knowing if there will be a meal tomorrow.

In coordination with “PassMyPlate”, we have taken a stand with our partner in Kenya to address and find a solution to eradicate poverty to more orphaned and widowed households who are either affected or infected by AIDS.  Their sisal project addresses this epidemic and now most women in this project can comfortably take care of their children, pay school fees, and become self-sufficient.  Sisal fiber has a wide variety of applications that can generate income including hand-made sisal rope, twin rope, string and yarn which can also be woven into carpets, mats and various crafts.  We are blessed to be able to support the sisal project!

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 2018 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.