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School Nutrition Clubs: Improving community food security

School Nutrition Clubs: Improving community food security
By Colleen Walton School nutrition clubs engage a small group of senior primary students to learn, develop and practice skills in good food and nutrition. In a five-session program, James and Brian meet students after school and involve them in planning and growing vegetables in a school-based kitchen gardening. Students are coached in preparing a…
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Making a difference in difficult times

Making a difference in difficult times
By Ken MellishThe area where FHF works in Kenya is experiencing a very serious drought. Because the area where wework is geographically diverse, the effects vary widely. The most serious effects are in the northern areaof Meru County where the situation is described as “dire“ by our staff. People do not have anything toeat, and…
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Return of the Village Feast in 2023!

Return of the Village Feast in 2023!
After a 3 year hiatus due to Covid, the 14th Village Feast is finally back! The annual community feast is scheduled to happen on July 9th, 2023. We are very excited to be able to celebrate our good fortunes again, and raise the funds necessary to support our organizations, which include Farmers Helping Farmers. Even…
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Celebrating the 2022 Volunteer of the Year

Celebrating the 2022 Volunteer of the Year
Winston Johnston named 2022 Farmers Helping Farmers Volunteer of the Year Long time volunteer Winston Johnston was recently named the 2022 Farmers Helping Farmers Volunteer of the year, an award presented in Charlottetown during the organization’s Annual General Meeting in July 2022. “Volunteer of the Year” recognizes an active member who has volunteered significant hours…
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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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