In northern Kenya, climate change is becoming a reality, with droughts coming faster and faster. Livestock are dying. Farming opportunities are disappearing. And thousands of children go days without any food in their stomachs.
The world hunger crisis is worse than ever, with 50 million children currently suffering from acute malnutrition. This Christmas, you can help sow a seed of hope for children.
Your Christmas gift will help more families keep their livestock and start farming where it was previously not possible. It allows students to eat nutritious food at school, play hard and grow up healthy. Your Christmas gift satisfies hunger.
Swedish kronor (SEK) 5 000 is enough to buy a metal fence around a vegetable garden or a rainwater irrigation system for a school garden. The school garden at Karbururi Primary School not only provides vegetables for the school kitchen, it also teaches Malich and her classmates about farming and nutrition.
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Swedish kronor (SEK) 1 000 is enough to buy cones for two cone farms and seeds for a vegetable garden. A cone farm is a type of vertical farming that stacks cones on top of each other. It is an efficient way to grow vegetables as it takes up minimal space and water. Cone gardens are very practical in dry areas, like in Halima's garden in Kenya.
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500 Swedish kronor (SEK) is enough to buy a wheelbarrow, or the seeds, seedlings and tools to start a vegetable farm.The arid landscape of northern Kenya requires crops to be drought resistant. Common vegetables grown are spinach and a type of cabbage called sukuma.
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