VPA’s Focus

Farming and Feeding our children

Farming…

… is providing good nutritious food for our students.  With our New Beginnings Farm, we have more acreage, 3 greenhouses, 3 ponds for tilapia, many pigs and chickens and are growing lots of vegetables.  When we are able to buy more land, we hope to grow beans and corn, but for now we buy beans and corn and add kale, tomatoes, squash, cabbage, and tilapia to our meals.  Our experienced farm manager is instrumental in our production.  If we have any surplus, we can sell it to provide income for our school. By providing healthy snacks and meals to our students, we have noticed a big improvement in their well-being and happiness!  

We have several bee hives on a section of our farm so that we have honey to share or sell.  Our dairy cows are being tended and provide milk.

We are building secure storage facilities when we can and we hope to someday acquire refrigeration and freezer storage for our produce.

The farm is also used for hands-on experience to teach students and widows better ways to farm. The students can help their families produce more through farming, and the women are able to better provide for their families. 

We have established a pig program from our surplus and we give a young pig to a family to raise.  This changes the family’s financial situation.  We also are able to provide some families with plots of ground where they can grow corn and beans.  

Facts

Grow fruits and vegetables on our property that are used to feed our students and staff

Utilize tilapia ponds to add protein and nutrients to our meals

Teach agriculture in our High School and our students help families with their gardens

Provide some widows with a posho mill so that they can serve their neighbors and earn a living

Care for high-quality dairy cows

Maintain beehives for fresh honey

Utilize greenhouses for year-round growing

Provide widows and families with pigs, chickens and plots to grow beans and corn

“Joy is spreading in the village as widows receive pigs.  Quite amazing really that pigs are a lifeline to a better life because of the economic opportunities.  And the joy continues when the widows give a piglet to another family in need.”

-Davis Otieno, Director


Village Project Africa logo

© 2023 Village Project Africa