Our Model of Impact

Communities lead. We follow through



We do not arrive with solutions. Communities know their own priorities, and our first job is to make sure the women help set them rather than hearing about them later.

From there, every partnership follows the same three stages: Listen and Plan, Build and Train, Harvest and Sell.

Before and after, in plain terms

Before
Rain falls for three months. A woman plants, harvests once, and sells at the same moment every other farmer is selling, when prices are lowest. By March the grain is gone and she is buying food she grew herself, at a markup. The soil gives a little less each year.

After
Water is available through the dry season. She harvests two or three times a year and sells vegetables when the market is empty and prices are high. The compost she makes on her own plot rebuilds the soil instead of stripping it. The income is hers, and she decides where it goes.

How we count

We report harvest weights recorded at the village level and participant counts from cooperative rosters. Where a figure is an estimate, we label it. Where we do not yet measure something, we do not claim it.

Listen and Plan

The village meets, the women set priorities, the chief donates the land, and we register it in their names.

→ 100 women farming land they own

Build and Train

A solar borehole, storage basins and piping across at least 5 hectares. Two technicians train the cooperative through the season.

→ Three months of farming becomes twelve

Harvest and Sell

The cooperative learns pricing and timing and sells past the village. We weigh every harvest and report it back.
→ 10+ tonnes of onions in Sinikiere