Our Hope for Their Future

Health and Food Security For All

The Organics 4 Orphans initiative seeks to address extreme poverty by helping African communities move from food reliance into conditions of self-sufficiency – even into surplus. We’re doing this by equipping small-scale farmers with the resources and knowledge to farm organically and productively, and then asking those farmers to help the orphans in their communities. By alleviating the strain of food insecurity in poor, rural areas, Organics 4 Orphans creates capacity in those communities to care for orphans, the most vulnerable of the extreme poor. Our approach is multi-pronged; we're focusing on four key goals:

  1. Food Security
  2. Nutritional Training
  3. Disease Prevention
  4. Income Generation

Our strategies center on rural farming communities, because we believe Africa's future depends on its ability to transform agriculture.

Agriculture sounds simple enough – people have been farming for millennia, after all. But in Africa, as we'll explain, the constraints to farming are unique. By addressing these constraints, Organics 4 Orphans will help the extremely poor in Africa lift themselves to the next rung of development, creating a brighter future for the orphans in their communities.

Because organic agriculture projects are central to our strategy, we're also contributing to a greener environment for orphans to inherit.

Our program is low-cost, community-based and sustainable.

 

Poverty

“I know poverty because poverty was there before I was born and it has become part of life like the blood through my veins.
Poverty is not going empty for a single day and getting something to eat the next day.
Poverty is going empty with no hope for the future.
Poverty is getting nobody to feel your pain and poverty is when your dreams go in vain because nobody is there to help you.
Poverty is watching your mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters die in pain and in sorrow just because they couldn't get something to eat.
Poverty is hearing your grandmothers and grandfathers cry out to death to come take them because they are tired of this world.
Poverty is watching your own children and grandchildren die in your arms but there is nothing you can do.
Poverty is watching your children and grandchildren share tears in their deepest sleep.
Poverty is suffering from HIV/AIDS and dying a shameful death but nobody seems to care
Poverty is when you hide your face and wish nobody could see you just because you feel less than a human being.
Poverty is when you dream of bread and fish you never see in the day light.
Poverty is when people accuse you and prosecute you for no fault of yours but who is there to say some for you?
Poverty is when the hopes of your fathers and grandfathers just vanish within a blink of an eye. I know poverty just like I know my father's name.

Poverty never sleeps.

Poverty works all day and night.

Poverty never takes a holiday"

(One Poor African)