John  Khawa

2023 PROJECT PLANS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE KAWAGUMBA VILLAGE COMMUNITY FARM Homa Bay County Kenya&nbsp; Kawagumba Village Community Farm Mission is to create a sustainable farm that provides food for those most in need in Homa Bay, Kenya, and surrounding villages. Values: Sustainable Accessible Food, Water, and Shelter for those most in need.&nbsp; Problem: hunger, malnutrition, poverty Solution: Sustainable Local Farm and Orphanage School House, providing healthy accessible food, employment and education&nbsp; Our Story&nbsp;Having experienced the tragedy of losing both parents and two brothers in a car accident in 2006, I worked for several years as a farm laborer. These challenges lead me to create community based farm that could feed the most vulnerable people in my community and empower&nbsp; Homa Bay County is former Nyanza province in Western Kenya, on the edge of Lake Victoria. Unfortunately, many people live hand to mouth and there are high cases of starvation around Homa bay. The fact of the project is, that immediately after my mom and dad plus other family members including two brothers died in a road accident in the year 2006. From 2007 up to 2018, I was working as farm laborer on different farms in different communities in Homa Bay County,&nbsp;I was working as a labour on the farm for 12 years as a Labour. During was an experience more difficult lifestyle I use to do my money-saving from my salary from the farm work. I did that for those years, and the total money I saved for preparation sting our the project was $1000, out of that money from the year 2018. I decided to start a community-based farm project,&nbsp;after seeing some of the challenges and hardships that many of my community members are undergoing in terms of starvation malnutrition, and hunger.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Team&nbsp;We are a team of 9 workers, 4 men and 5 women.&nbsp; Production Cost&nbsp;Each of the workers I used to pay $40 every month. They help with the farm activities such as transplanting the seedling and other farm activities. In our community project, we introduce growing a good number of fruits and vegetables that can support a good number of vulnerable populations around the community. We plan to grow more kale, spinach, onions, tomatoes, pumpkins,&nbsp;watermelon jack fruits, sour fruit,&nbsp;mangoes, bananas,&nbsp;avocado, and passion fruits.&nbsp; The kawagumba village community project has already been supporting the different people within and around our community through the supply of food to vulnerable community members. Each year we are supporting ten widows as well as some students. All of this we are doing through management from the sales of our products from the farm.&nbsp;Currently, we are working on rental land agreements. A good number of our community members have seen the positivity that the project has brought and they have fully accepted the idea and even at times they do help in farm management operation when needs be.&nbsp; The project not only focuses on supporting those within our community but also those from nearby communities.&nbsp; Goals<ol><li>Eradicate poverty in the community</li><li class="ql-indent-1">What ways will you reduce poverty? Provide jobs for people</li><li class="ql-indent-1"> </li><li>Reduce the malnutrition cases in our community by providing a balanced diet to all ages&nbsp;</li><li class="ql-indent-1">What ways?&nbsp;</li><li class="ql-indent-1"> </li><li>Establish sustainable opportunities to achieve zero hunger in our community&nbsp;</li><li class="ql-indent-1">What ways, what opportunities?</li><li class="ql-indent-1"> </li><li>Build an Orphanage School House to improve lives and education of orphaned children</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Need to breakdown details</li></ol> S W O T Analysis : Strengths Opportunities Weaknesses Threats&nbsp; Challenges&nbsp;<ol><li>Water shortage - Create systems to reduce the challenges, drought.</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Reservoir&nbsp;</li><li>Land Cost</li></ol> Budget Items / Resources&nbsp;<ol><li>Farm Tools&nbsp;</li><li class="ql-indent-1">What tools? Specifically&nbsp;</li><li class="ql-indent-1">How Many?</li><li class="ql-indent-1">How much estimate?&nbsp;</li><li>Farm Equipment</li><li class="ql-indent-1">wheelbarrow, panga, shovel, wheelbarrow watering can, watering hoses</li><li class="ql-indent-1">$700</li><li class="ql-indent-1"> </li><li>Seeds&nbsp;</li><li>Fertilizer</li><li>Building Orphanage School at least 3 rooms</li><li>Fencing&nbsp;</li><li>Motorcycle for easy transportation&nbsp;</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Truck would be better</li><li>Wi-Fi</li><li>Phones</li><li>Laptop&nbsp;</li></ol>2023 BUDGET PLANS FOR OUR PROJECT IMPROVEMENT.&nbsp;I am asking for support to help us reach our goals of providing more food and support to my community. We are looking for financial support to help us reach all our goals and improve our expenses.&nbsp; <ol><li>We plan to drill a bore hole, we estimate this will cost around $19000.&nbsp;</li><li>We need our own land to buy. We are planning for a 3 acres estimate that can cost $20000. The land is very expensive in Kenya.</li><li>We need to fence our land. It can cost $900.&nbsp;&nbsp;</li><li>Farm equipment such as</li><li>seeds and fertilize can cost $600.</li><li>Labour cost we need to pay our workers in the farm is estimated to be $18000.&nbsp;This will support our students in school fees in 3 years time.&nbsp;</li><li>Orifice and orphanage building classes estimate cost is $13000.&nbsp;</li><li>We need a project motorcycle for on and off means of transportation cost $4000.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</li></ol> The total budget is $76200 USD&nbsp; I understand that the regenerative ecosystem is about earth care and people care, so I ask if you maybe able to support some of our efforts, we will be grateful for any amount you can donate to us. All photos and videos are found on our page. Our page name is KAWAGUMBA VILLAGE COMMUNITY . IMPACT EVIDENCE FROM THE KAWAGUMBA VILLAGE COMMUNITY FARMING PROJECT , food sustanability for the village people, charity work for the venerable people in our community, free trees planting for the benefit of the community, Agricultural trading we offer that for the community.

2023 PROJECT PLANS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE KAWAGUMBA VILLAGE COMMUNITY FARM Homa
Bay County Kenya 
Kawagumba Village Community Farm Mission is to create a sustainable farm that
provides food for those most in need in Homa Bay, Kenya, and surrounding
villages.
Values: Sustainable Accessible Food, W...