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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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Water tanks changing lives for Kenyan women and their families

Water tanks changing lives for Kenyan women and their families
The Nkando- Kamuketha area in Meru, Kenya, is a semi-arid area, whose residents have fordecades had to bear with water-scarcity, unpredictable rainfall, and low-rainfall patterns. Thesefactors have greatly contributed to the food scarcity in the area and the drought affectinglivestock too. Through the support from Farmers Helping Farmers, the usual narrative is taking a huge…
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Cookstoves mean healthier kitchens, less firewood for women’s group

Cookstoves mean healthier kitchens, less firewood for women’s group
In early 2021, Rotary Club of Charlottetown provided funds to Farmers Helping Farmers to provide fuel-efficient, vented cookstoves to thirty members of a partner group of FHF. Kamuketha Top women’s group was selected to receive these stoves, and 30 stoves were delivered, installed and are in operation for the women. Claire, one of FHF contract…
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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Kenyan farmers

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Kenyan farmers
How the pandemic experience in Kenya has been different from here in Canada By: Sarah MutheeAs I reflect on how fortunate we have been, living in a province where access to health care remains a fundamental human right, I am especially drawn back to March 14, 2020 when Prince Edward Island confirmed its first case…
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