Will you re-green a garden this summer?

Name: Ripple Effect
Price range: $

Raised: £23461 Target: £55000

Support farmers in rural Kenya to bring their gardens back to life and grow food for nutritious meals.

It’s clear to see how the land in the Kwale region of Kenya has been impacted by the climate crisis. The soil in this area is sandy, lacks nutrients and is currently unsuitable for growing crops. Over 80% of farmers in the region depend on this land to feed their families.

With your help, we can re-green farmers' gardens, allowing them to learn more, grow more, and sell more.

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Challenges caused by the climate crisis

Meet Sikukuu who lives with her husband Ibrahim and their two young children. As the climate crisis has worsened, the weather patterns they rely on have become unpredictable. Repeated cycles of drought and heavy rainfall destroy their crops and the quality of the soil.

Over time, green gardens with healthy soil for growing have been lost, along with her hopes and dreams for the future.

"Our harvests have decreased due to the climate crisis, and as a result, there is less food and money because the land is deficient in nutrients. With this changing climate, you can plant your crops well, and suddenly it rains heavily damaging them and causing flooding, or on the other hand you can plant [crops] and lack rain, then rain may come when the plants are already dead."

Sikukuu, Kenya

The conditions families like Sikukuu’s are up against are extremely tough. Year on year, as harvests decrease, Sikukuu’s children are at greater risk of hunger and malnutrition. This is a burden no parent should ever have to bear. But with your support today, things don’t have to be this way.

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Our approach

Together, we can support families to re-green their gardens and grow an abundance of food now and in the future:

Healthy soils for healthy crops Families will learn about composting and how it can help add vital nutrients to the soil and promote healthy plant growth.

Growing flourishing gardens whatever the weather Families will learn how to establish raised beds like keyhole gardens that retain moisture while allowing for better drainage so that they can adapt to the challenges the climate crisis brings.

Fruit tree planting to regenerate the land Families will learn about the benefits of tree planting and can implement these techniques to regenerate their plots of land.

Leah, another farmer in Kenya has been working with Ripple Effect for over three years. Since joining a Ripple Effect project in Migori, she has turned her land into flourishing green gardens with plenty to feed her family and a surplus to sell. She has used a variety of different techniques to re-green her garden and protect her crops from heavy rainfall and periods of drought as a result of the climate crisis:

"Ripple Effect has assisted us immensely. They have provided us with comprehensive training. They taught us how to manage our farms, enabling us to achieve self-sufficiency in food production." Leah, Kenya

Thank you for being there for farming families like Sikukuu’s this summer and beyond.

A gift of any size could ensure a family like hers can restore the land, access nutritious food and earn an income, even in the face of the climate crisis.

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