Agricultural Programs:
Africa and Asia

• In India: Goats provide
sustainable income

Few opportunities exist for poor Asian villagers to increase their income. Often their hard work, day after day, yields barely enough to feed their families. But these needy families can easily supplement their income by raising goats. As the animals reproduce, they are sold to provide for family needs.

Goats create a self-sustaining stream of income that will make a dramatic contribution to their livelihood of a poor family. Often the additional funds provided by goats will enable families to send their children to school.

  Watch Harvest of Hope goat slide show

 

• In India: Earthworms for women

Many families in India work all their lives caring for a landlord's farmland, and make far less than poverty wages. Armed with simple biotechnology, a woman can launch her own simple and effective small business.

Using earthworms and other local materials, women entrepreneurs can produce and market a high quality natural fertilizer. With a quantity of earthworms a woman can create an eco-friendly and sustainable source of fertilizer for village crops. The proceeds from her sales will support her entire family.

• In Africa - Farming tools for refugees

Many refugee families have fled to Ivory Coast as a haven from the fighting that has affected the whole region. Separated from their land and livelihood, these families struggle to find work and food. The local churches have purchased a plot of land for a cooperative farm. The farm's crop supports the needs of many refugee families who each contribute a share of the work. Your gift provides tools such as a shovel, hoe or machete for use in planting, tending and harvesting their crops.