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Book inspired by FHF experience in Kenya nominated for PEI Book Award

Book inspired by FHF experience in Kenya nominated for PEI Book Award
Broken Crayons nominated for 2022 Prince Edward Island Book Award Patsy Dingwell and her grand-daughter at the launch of Broken Crayons Congratulations to Patsy Dingwell on her nomination for a PEI Book Award in the category of Children’s Literature. Broken Crayons tells the real-life story of Ms. Gillis, a preservice teacher at the University of…
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Holiday Campaign success benefits families in Kenya

Holiday Campaign success benefits families in Kenya
Generous donations top $95,000 in successful Farmers Helping Farmers holiday fundraiser January 1, 2022 Once again, our Holiday Campaign was very successful, thanks to your generosity!  More than half of the rural people living in Meru County, Kenya, the area where Farmers Helping Farmers works, continue to suffer high levels of poverty and food insecurity.  The campaign…
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New nutrition clubs popular at Kenyan schools

New nutrition clubs popular at Kenyan schools
After school nutrition clubs growing knowledge about healthy eating Brian Mutuma, the associate community nutritionist with the More Food, Better Food project, hasworked with the Murinya Primary school to set up a nutrition club with standard 6 and 7 students. The students meet after school to plant their own garden. They tend the garden and…
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Eggs for Nutrition

Eggs for Nutrition
New chicken project will add nutrition for Kenyan children FHF has started demonstrating the value of improved, well-managed hens as way to improve the diet ofKenyan children. The typical diet of our partners’ children lacks high quality protein, and minerals needed for healthy children. This undernutrition can cause susceptibility to disease and slow growth. Unimproved…
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Letter exchange continues in 2022 between Canada and Kenya twinned schools

Letter exchange continues in 2022 between Canada and Kenya twinned schools
Education Committee of Farmers Helping Farmers promotes bonds between schools in Kenya and Canada This winter, schools and church groups on P.E.I. and in Alberta continued writing letters with their twinned schools in Kenya.  https://twitter.com/Mme_lydia10/status/1508509242537484290 More than 250 letters were sent to Kenya in February.  Unfortunately, these letters had to be couriered as no pre-service…
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Safety Around Animals program expands to more Kenyan schools

Safety Around Animals program expands to more Kenyan schools
FHF Volunteer brings Safety Around Animals program to primary schools in Mukurwe-ini Kenya . Workshop participants at the Safety Around Animal Session at the CDF Hall in Mukurwe-ini A Long Awaited Return to Kenya By Dr. Shauna Richards At the start of February, I drove from Arusha Tanzania to the Namanga border crossing into Kenya.…
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Female hygiene kits help girls stay in school in rural Kenya

Female hygiene kits help girls stay in school in rural Kenya
Female hygiene kits help girls stay in school in rural Kenya Attendance of girls in school no longer put in jeopardy because of lack of sanitary pads by Claire Loinah Empowering women is one of the key goals that Farmers Helping Farmers looks forward to accomplishing with its projects. Among the vital factors that contribute…
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Village Feast continues to support Kenyan school lunch feeding program

Village Feast continues to support Kenyan school lunch feeding program
Good work continues in Kenya thanks to Feast organizers The good work of the organizers and volunteers with the Village Feast in Souris, Prince Edward Island continues, despite the COVID-19 pandemic. In December 2021, Alan MacPhee, representing the Village Feast, presented a cheque for more than $9,000 to the president of Farmers Helping Farmers, Judy…
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Dr. John VanLeeuwen honoured with Rotary mentor award

Dr. John VanLeeuwen honoured with Rotary mentor award
'Epitome' of a mentor wins Rotary award On November 10, 2021, Dr. John VanLeeuwen was honoured as the 2021 winner of the Mentor Award from the Rotary Club of Charlottetown Royalty. Dr. John, as many of us call him, is a professor at the Atlantic Veterinary College in Charlottetown. As we learned at the awards…
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Farmers Helping Farmers Holiday Campaign vitally important as Kenyans continue to feel the impact of COVID-19 pandemic

Farmers Helping Farmers Holiday Campaign vitally important as Kenyans continue to feel the impact of COVID-19 pandemic
P.E.I.-based volunteer organization hopes to send message of hope to Kenyan partners through holiday donations The COVID-19 pandemic continues to make daily life challenging for people in Kenya, including the women’s groups, farmers, dairies and schools that are the partners of Farmers Helping Farmers.  In October, Kenya finally lifted a nationwide curfew that had been…
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