Background/History

Many widows and children are experiencing hardship. The widows find it difficult to support their children's education and to meet their basic needs for clothing, healthcare, and food. Providing animals will provide empowerment to them and their children.

There is an alarming rate of desert encroachment, a result of pressure on the land due to an increasing population rate, high rate of tree felling for farmland, fuel and charcoal production, overgrazing of the fields through nomadic activities, and indiscriminate bush burning. Averting this negative trend by embarking on programs that will end the problem is needed.

Goals & Objectives

1. To empower and provide 50 widows with female animals every year.
2. To reduce the rate of deforestation within the community through education, nursery management, tree planting, and raising 5000 assorted tree seedlings every year.
3. To improve techniques in food processing available to women groups within the four-year period.
4. To increase the protein intake level among 100 identified women and children every year.
5. To reduce the high rate of infant and maternal mortality resulting from malaria and malnutrition by using A-3 herbs, this fights against malaria, on children over four years old.
6. To provide to the people an alternative means of livelihood, this alleviates dependency syndrome.
7. To provide a balanced diet among the people.

Activities Plan

1. Identify and locate widows who are in need.
2. Register and train them on basic animal management and improved nutritional programs.
3. Provide necessary veterinary care and timely supervision of veterinary supplies distribution.
4. Prompt collection of first offspring from benefiting widows for on-ward distribution to other potential widows.
5. Train identified target groups in the utilization of A-3.
6. Provide seeds and seedlings of A-3, soybeans, and moringa.
7. Develop tree nursery seedlings at a community and program level.
8. Educate and train beneficiaries on nursery management and tree planting.
9. Educate farmers on the relevance of fire tracing and the importance of conserving the environment.