Building A Self Sustaining Farm In Africa For Our Girls

Jul 07, 2022 11:16 am

Beans, rice, posho, peas, tomatoes, eggplant, carrots, and onions.

Pretty much every meal is made of these things at Touch the Slum, our food program we run in Uganda through 10eighteen. We no longer have chapati, because we can’t afford flour. Avocados and mangoes are served only for our residential girls, with some greens to vary their diet.

Mama Santa still makes amazing food, but serving 1700 meals a month on a small budget when food prices are doubling is a losing battle.

This is why we are about to launch our FARM PROJECT on DonorSee. This will be one of our largest projects ever – the other big project we did was at Christmas when the Expat Money community funded our Literacy Program to help over 60 girls in 2022 learn how to read and write.

Now our plan is to purchase 2-3 acres of arable land, it will be about an hour and a half away from the Touch the Slum compound. We will hire a full-time farmer/caretaker, providing him with a place to live with his family as he starts and tends our small farm.

We will grow both seasonal crops like tomatoes, beans, tomatoes, and onions; and long-term crops like cassava, matoke, and fruit trees. We’ll also have laying hens to provide some needed protein to the teen mothers we work with.

The compound will be fenced and gated, and we will be able to bring any girls interested in learning farming once or twice a month to spend the day and help with the process.

This is a big project, costing $20,000 USD, but we believe that it will allow us to be largely self-sufficient for most of our food, and help us be less at the mercy of inflation, shortages, and government interference. Your help in reaching this goal is SO important – we hope you’ll consider donating and that you’ll share the project with family and friends. You can truly make a difference!