Baby Steps Toward Food Security In Rural Kenya
The people in these images above have said they want to move away from aid handouts and toward something more sustainable. They want to produce their own food so they can keep orphans and widows safe in their community, and that’s a next step that excites us!
Thank you, James Project Donors!
Your giving is making some beautiful things possible here in rural Kenya, and we took some time during out last trip to show you some of them. Thanks to all of you who keep showing up to support people in Kenya, especially as they work for sustainability!
Aid vs Development: Two Stories
This old saying came to mind again on a recent trip through East Africa, and it’s a reminder why we do this work developing farms in underserved parts of the world. People stuck in poverty cycles are often very hard working, but the work is inefficient and they often lack the partnership, resources, and vision required to move toward self-sufficiency…
Investing Prospects: New Opportunities in East Africa
At AgGrandize, our Scout team finds excellent people to invest in, but we keep to a specific investment focus: using the C Fund to provide commodity loans.
That leaves many excellent opportunities out of our scope, but some of these businesses are just as strong as those we invest in. I’d like to present five opportunities that we appreciated visiting, to give you the chance to invest directly…
Farmer First: Margaret
Margaret is a Kenyan farmer and co-leads an agricultural business near Mt Kenya with her husband, Haron. Margaret’s farm felt like Eden, it was so lush and vibrantly ‘alive’ in every sense of the word. While we have not partnered with Margaret’s business, Akili Foods, they are a distributor of our latest portfolio partner and impact investment, Long Miles Coffee.
Support A Coffee Farming Family For Giving Tuesday!
This Giving Tuesday, we’re partnering with Long Miles Coffee to provide critical inputs (seed, fertilizer) that will help coffee farmers in East Africa triple or even quadruple their yield!
Meet Beatrice, A True Neighbor
Beatrice understands God’s call to love our neighbor, and she takes it seriously by constantly volunteering to help. The woman is the epitome of a self-starter servant…
A Food Business Trial Run For Kenyan Widows & Orphans
In a small region of Kenya outside the capital city of Nairobi, one local couple named Meshach and Elizabeth are using their God-given time and talents to serve widows and orphans in their area, and their out-of-the-box thinking and willingness to just try things for the sake of the Kingdom is absolutely beautiful.
Farmer First: Meet Joseph
Every first of the month, we highlight a farmer we love. Some of these are current or former partners, some are AgG volunteers or donors, and some are just amazing people we get to meet along the way.
Today we’re highlighting an big-hearted farmer named Joseph
Portfolio Partner: Long Miles Coffee
The European and North American workforce loves coffee, no secret there, but do they love the coffee farmers, too? Historically, the honest answer to that would be…
Shadrach’s Story
When his father died to HIV-AIDS and his mother went missing, Shadrach’s story could have ended like so many other orphans in his area…