Small scale projects we are currently seeking funding for
Peanut Project (estimated cost 1000$)
This project would involve the rental of four fields to be cooperatively farmed by the women of Muhondo Parish. The project estimation costs include; land rental, purchase of tools, seed and fertilizer, and classes on peanut production, as well as, soil conservation and renovation. Peanut crops would help restore nitrogen to badly over grazed and over farmed areas and would provide a valuable source of protein and nutrition for local children. As production increases, the project hopes to add a mill for rendering peanuts into highly nutritious flour, which can be easily transported and marketed in large cities for additional income.
This project would finance the building of a small facility to raise chicks to meat size and breeding size. Breeding stock would be distributed to local women for egg production and meat production at home. Meat chickens would also be produced cooperatively at the central facility to market en gross to higher paying markets in local cities.
This project would build a breeding facility to distribute breeding stock to local women .Rabbits are a low cost and very productive source of meat. A doe or female rabbit has a gestation period of 30 days and can produce up to ten kits or babies per pregnancy. The average doe produces about 36 offspring in one year which will in turn be able to breed at the age of four months. That's a lot of rabbits!
Community Gardening Project US based intercity project (cost estimate for one year $2000) High Impact Projects is working in conjunction with Five River Metro Parks in Dayton , Ohio to help African refugee families start urban garden plots. We are working with families from Sudan, Congo. Burundi and Rwanda to exploit vacant lots within the city for small scale agricultural use. 2009 was our first year and was quite successful. In 2010 we added three more inner city lots and a rain water collection system. This year we expanded the project with additional lots and families and the addition of tools a small roto tiller from Muhammad Ali Center and Mantis Foundation.The current cost estimate is for tools, greenhouse supplies, seeds, bedding plants and fertilizer. In the future we hope to add a greenhouse for vocational training, plant propagation and income generation.
Urban community garden in Dayton, Ohio
10$ buys two rabbits 15$ buys two chickens 20$ buys one goat 30$ buys one piglet 100$ 60lbs of corn seed 200$ buys 60 pounds of peanut seed 300$ buys 200lbs of fertilizer 500$ funds a community wide rabbit or chicken raising project. 800$ buys a grain mill for a community
