The Global Food Crisis Fund, a fund of the Church of the Brethren that
fights hunger by promoting sustainable development, has announced
several recent grants. The four grants total $26,500.
In Honduras, $15,000 is supporting a new hunger program in cooperation
with Proyecto Alden Global (PAG). This grant will support the
micro-financing of impoverished Lenca families for the purchase and
the raising of small livestock. A portion of the grant, $2,500, is a
gift designated for PAG from the home district (Western Pennsylvania)
of Chet Thomas, director of PAG. This is the district's second
gift of that amount; the first was remitted earlier this year. To
complete the GFCF's commitment to PAG, an additional grant of
$12,500 will be proposed either late this year or early in 2012, as
funds permit.
In Niger, an allocation of $5,000 has gone to to Water for Life. This
is the third GFCF grant issued to Water for Life. The first for
$10,000 was issued in 2010. A second $10,000 grant was issued early in
2011. This partial third grant is being accelerated to enable response
to urgent needs. Funds are being used to dig community wells, plant
trees, and diversify garden produce in villages across northeastern
Niger.
A grant of $4,000 has been given tor Care for Creation Kenya (CCK). A
previous grant of $4,000 in 2010 helped to establish an agricultural
demonstration farm, expand an indigenous tree nursery, and conduct
training events. Funds from this grant will support training for
low-income farmers in agriculture and forestry. One key group of 40
farmers from the Ndeiya and Mai Mahai community in the Rift Valley
will engage in continuing in-depth training.
In Rwanda, $2,500 is supporting a project promoting
self-sustainability through agriculture among the Pygmie population.
Funds from the grant will be used to cover cost of potato and maize
seed, hand tools, sprayers and chemicals, and rental of land.
Source:10/20/2011 Newsline
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