The need for sustainability, clean water and pure, affordable, organic food production throughout Africa and the developing nations is crucial. This is important for the future leadership development in our children and the hope of Africa.
Our mandate is to reach out with a helping hand and see self sustaining villages, orphanages and children's homes built up. This is all done in order to help out in the crises of over 2.5 million orphans in the Sub Sahara alone. We believe touching one child at a time and giving a home to an orphan is an effective and affordable way to approach the issue of hopelessness in the lives of these children and many people around the world, especially across the continent of Africa.
Organics For Orphans has been formed and put together by a team of professionals in the health and organic farming industry along with NGO experts. Our NGO experts have the experience in building children's homes and looking after orphans in over 20 nations of the earth.
This specific project focuses on strategic placement of orphans into healthy families who farm and live off the land in rural areas. A very high percentage of Africans are involved in 1-2 acre farms. However most are using outdated and poverty producing chemical based farming methods as well as growing crops that have low market value; for example: maize (corn) is the staple for Kenya.
Many people groups have abandoned their love for farming and have been pushed into the slums of the city's.. Now, these people are the ones who make up a big part of those living on less than a dollar a day (extreme poverty) in Africa.
We want to help by seeing a great increase in income and farm sustainability for slum dwellers and farmers. It is said in truth that a farmers bank count is in his soil. As we work with farmers throughout the land, we are introducing higher value organic crops and more successful methods of farming. One such method is bio intensive organic farming, along with another natural methods giving multiple crops a year. All these are high yielding and the quality is far superior to chemical conventional and commercial farming. To those who chose to go this route we are suppliers of organic fertilizer and EM technology.
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
What are We up to?
Organics for Orphans: Our Hope for their Future
Organics For Orphans, a Hope for the Nations and Love mercy program, is targeting two issues endemic in Africa: the impoverishment of farmers and the homelessness of millions of orphans.
Africa is the only continent where food production per capita has fallen in the last four decades. Other continents have tripled their outputs. Many Africans eke out a living on small plots, relying on unsustainable methods for farming crops with low market value. Faced with declining productivity, small-scale farmers often abandon the land to swell the ranks of the extreme poor in urban slums.
There are an estimated 34 million orphans in Africa. Time and again, we see the neighbours and extended families of these orphans open their homes, even in the face of their own poverty.
Organics for Orphans supports the communities that support orphans, by creating the conditions for sustainable agriculture.
Together with our community partners, Organics for Orphans is taking a three-pronged approach:
1. Sharing leading-edge agricultural practices:
Organics for Orphans is connecting struggling African farmers with local experts in bio-intensive organic farming and natural cultivation methods. Using these proven techniques, small-scale farmers can yield multiple, high-quality harvests each year, superior to chemical-based produce.
2. Providing organic agricultural inputs:
Organics for Orphans enables small-scale farmers to access highly affordable, top quality organic fertilizer (http://www.rutuba.com/). We support water harvesting, conservation and provide assistance in drilling wells for community use. Farmers wishing to diversify their crops and shift to higher-value produce are provided with seeds and technologies to cultivate crops with greater market value.
The productive capital of a farm is its soil. Soil fertility makes the difference between a surplus and starvation. Organic fertilizer helps soil to more effectively hold water, reducing the need for irrigation, at a cost lower than chemical fertilizer, and without damaging the environment.
3. Connecting thriving communities with orphans:
All of the farmers participating in our program are supporting local orphans by “grafting” these children into their own families. We believe that generosity is contagious, and because we want to foster generosity towards orphans, we’re giving back to adoptive families by helping them to prosper.
The Organics For Orphans program is delivered through Hope for the Nations and Love Mercy by a volunteer team of professionals from the health and organic farming sectors with guidance from NGO advisers. These NGO experts have the experience in building healthy homes for
orphans in over 20 nations.
Organics For Orphans, a Hope for the Nations and Love mercy program, is targeting two issues endemic in Africa: the impoverishment of farmers and the homelessness of millions of orphans.
Africa is the only continent where food production per capita has fallen in the last four decades. Other continents have tripled their outputs. Many Africans eke out a living on small plots, relying on unsustainable methods for farming crops with low market value. Faced with declining productivity, small-scale farmers often abandon the land to swell the ranks of the extreme poor in urban slums.
There are an estimated 34 million orphans in Africa. Time and again, we see the neighbours and extended families of these orphans open their homes, even in the face of their own poverty.
Organics for Orphans supports the communities that support orphans, by creating the conditions for sustainable agriculture.
Together with our community partners, Organics for Orphans is taking a three-pronged approach:
1. Sharing leading-edge agricultural practices:
Organics for Orphans is connecting struggling African farmers with local experts in bio-intensive organic farming and natural cultivation methods. Using these proven techniques, small-scale farmers can yield multiple, high-quality harvests each year, superior to chemical-based produce.
2. Providing organic agricultural inputs:
Organics for Orphans enables small-scale farmers to access highly affordable, top quality organic fertilizer (http://www.rutuba.com/). We support water harvesting, conservation and provide assistance in drilling wells for community use. Farmers wishing to diversify their crops and shift to higher-value produce are provided with seeds and technologies to cultivate crops with greater market value.
The productive capital of a farm is its soil. Soil fertility makes the difference between a surplus and starvation. Organic fertilizer helps soil to more effectively hold water, reducing the need for irrigation, at a cost lower than chemical fertilizer, and without damaging the environment.
3. Connecting thriving communities with orphans:
All of the farmers participating in our program are supporting local orphans by “grafting” these children into their own families. We believe that generosity is contagious, and because we want to foster generosity towards orphans, we’re giving back to adoptive families by helping them to prosper.
The Organics For Orphans program is delivered through Hope for the Nations and Love Mercy by a volunteer team of professionals from the health and organic farming sectors with guidance from NGO advisers. These NGO experts have the experience in building healthy homes for
orphans in over 20 nations.
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