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    partnering with Kenyan farmers and families

Improved cooking stoves are a game changer

Improved cooking stoves are a game changer
By Colleen Walton, FHF Project Committee member Improved cookstoves are key item in ‘critical infrastructure’ provided to women’s grouppartners, along with water collection and storage. Improved cookstoves provide a ‘double dividend’ of reducing fuel need, and thus deforestation, and reducing the exposure of women and children to high levels of indoor pollutants (carbon monoxideand suspended…
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Volunteering in Kenya in 2023 – are you interested?

Volunteering in Kenya in 2023 – are you interested?
Are you interested in volunteering in Kenya for 3 weeks in January and February? Would you like to have tree-ripened mangoes  to eat every day in Kenya for three weeks in January and February?  Farmers Helping Farmers is making plans to travel and work in Kenya for 3 weeks from approximately January 20 until February…
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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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