How your support makes a difference

Why support FARM-Africa?

You can help thousands of people to change their lives:

Whether empowering rural women, supporting farmers to access new seeds and technologies, enabling pastoralists to combat tough climate conditions or helping forest communities to protect their fragile environment, you can help people to transform their lives and overcome poverty.

Tanzania: With access to new high-yielding maize seeds and training in techniques to increase productivity and to market their produce, farmers have nearly doubled their yields. Income has soared from less than 50 pence a day to an average of £2.50.

Kenya: Dairy goat farmers have increased their average annual income from £46 to around £497.

Uganda: With access to new varieties of cassava, rural farmers have increased the value of their produce from £4 to £242 per acre. They are now selling 70% of their produce. Farmers who previously depended on food aid have achieved food security.

Ethiopia: Participants in the Women's Enterprise Development Project have moved up two wealth categories from ‘the poorest of the poor' to ‘medium'. Food consumption has increased substantially: 82% now eat three meals a day, compared with 32% three years ago. And 44% more women are enrolling in education.


Amou's story Amou, from Southern Sudan, is a widow who cares for her three grandchildren. Because Amou lost all her livestock in a raid, her family had no access to milk or to the manure they needed to cultivate their land. They were struggling to grow enough crops to feed themselves and sell to raise money for essentials like clothing and medicines. FARM-Africa provided five goats to Amou, and many of the other women in similar situations - giving them the start they needed to develop their businesses once again. Amou's goats produced nine offspring, five of which she returned to FARM-Africa for redistribution to other vulnerable households. Thanks to her new livestock, Amou and her grandchildren have access to nutritious goats' milk. The manure has helped the family grow a very good crop of sorghum. With the money she will earn from selling surplus crops, Amou intends to buy a heifer so that her family can have even more milk. Just a few goats have transformed Amou's life. She says, "Now people are respecting me in their meetings because I also have goats like them. They no longer call me a poor woman. My life has changed. I am a woman now."

Amou's story

Amou, from Southern Sudan, is a widow who cares for her three grandchildren. Because Amou lost all her livestock in a raid, her family had no access to milk or to the manure they needed to cultivate their land. They were struggling to grow enough crops to feed themselves and sell to raise money for essentials like clothing and medicines.

FARM-Africa provided five goats to Amou, and many of the other women in similar situations - giving them the start they needed to develop their businesses once again. Amou's goats produced nine offspring, five of which she returned to FARM-Africa for redistribution to other vulnerable households. Thanks to her new livestock, Amou and her grandchildren have access to nutritious goats' milk. The manure has helped the family grow a very good crop of sorghum. With the money she will earn from selling surplus crops, Amou intends to buy a heifer so that her family can have even more milk.

Just a few goats have transformed Amou's life. She says, "Now people are respecting me in their meetings because I also have goats like them. They no longer call me a poor woman. My life has changed. I am a woman now."


£15 could help to train a farmer in Tanzania to harvest honey from forest bees. Giving them good quality honey to sell. £50 could provide a hunter gatherer community with training in land rights and how to manage the community’s natural resources. £100 pays for 28 families to be equipped with essential farming tools. £200 could help a farmers’ group in Ethiopia to buy oxen and a plough to cultivate their land. £300 could train and equip a farmer to provide crucial basic animal healthcare in their community to prevent animals dying unnecessarily. £1000 could help set up a tree nursery, providing jobs for the poorest people and protecting the forest for future generations.

£15 could help to train a farmer in Tanzania to harvest honey from forest bees. Giving them good quality honey to sell.

£50 could provide a hunter gatherer community with training in land rights and how to manage the community’s natural resources.

£100 pays for 28 families to be equipped with essential farming tools.

£200 could help a farmers’ group in Ethiopia to buy oxen and a plough to cultivate their land.

£300 could train and equip a farmer to provide crucial basic animal healthcare in their community to prevent animals dying unnecessarily.

£1000 could help set up a tree nursery, providing jobs for the poorest people and protecting the forest for future generations.