4. FARMING

Food Programme
At Africa Foundation we believe, no child should be hungry and go without food ever!

Africa Foundation provides food everyday for homeless/abandoned children and their families living in poor and famine related conditions. We continually monitor local conditions to ensure our rural families have adequate food supplies.

Through our school lunch provision programme, Africa Foundation ensures, that every child attending our Rookmaaker School and all other children under our care receive a meal at school every day. With your donation and assistance, many children will continue to be guaranteed a meal each day ensuring they are healthy and remain focused in the classroom.

African Foundation is dedicated to feeding as many children as possible, and we feed thousands of children everyday, but there are many more children still surviving the day with nothing to eat. We need your help to enable us to add more children to our school lunch meal programme.

You can provide a child a school lunch-meal for an entire year for just pennies a day. Please make your donation, and gift to a child, today by feeding them for a whole year for any amount you can assist in our vital food programme.

Africa Foundation truly believes that no single child should go without food.

Community Re-Investment Farming (CIF)

Prevention mechanisms that we have proposed on the guidelines are to sensitise the community on their roles and responsibilities for the children within their community. Others include poverty alleviation through our on going Participatory Rural Community Involvement Methods (PRCIM), whereby poor families come and identify programmes such as income-generating activities to release them from poverty

Africa Foundation children centre is concentrating on settled agricultural practices, specifically subsistence farming to support our children. This is being carried out on a small scale at our farm at Mukono, as we cannot provide capital for large-scale farming. The main aim of the farming project is to change the attitude of our children towards participatory development, thus improving their livelihoods. Africa foundation, however, has vast a 90-acre piece of land, which can be used creatively to economically raise the standards of our children and local community depending on farming. This will be complimented by our proposed irrigation plant project, which will also be helpful to the community. It’s our intention to reducing poverty among youth in the area. Our hope is that through the sales of farming products, members of our rural community can be able to pay for their siblings' school fees.

Aim and Objectives

The aim of the Community Investment Farming (CIF) is to promote and improve food and cash crop production in our communities, in order to increase average household incomes but most importantly to provide nutritious food to our Mukono Children’s Centre.

Task (1)
Our plan is to expand the existing food farm to help increase our village's standard of living. Simultaneously we will be providing the entire community, especially the youth who are currently not attending school, with productive roles within the community and the continuous cultivation of crops. This will ensure a more secure source of income, economic empowerment and increased food security.

Task (2)
The aim is to continue to expand our food and vegetable crops (cabbages, onions, carrots and tomatoes etc) on our 90 acres of land, both our children and community are in charge of all aspects of the operation, planting, spraying, weeding and harvesting. The process will continue to be undertaken in the following stages:

Stage 1, the land is ploughed and cultivated, under the guidance of the local Africa Foundation’s field agricultural officer.

Stage 2, involves, after the successful completion of phase one, the harvesting of the crops. This will help us to expand into more acreage of our currently empty farmland. Having gained the knowledge and experience, those who gain skills in the process can in return give training session within the community on how to cultivate the crops and use advanced farming methods such as irrigation system.

Our Mukono Farm will continue to be used as a demonstrative farm to help impart farming knowledge to the community. This will enable more of our rural people to turn to crop cultivation and thus increasing their economic power.

Please help us and make your donation today.