MISSION STATEMENT
Helping Hands Farm Initiative strives to end food insecurity and poverty by teaching income-creating farming skills and providing farm inputs to vulnerable communities in urban and peri-urban areas in Kenya.
Our work supports the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 1 and 2; No poverty and zero hunger by 2030.
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
To provide a sustainable means of putting food on the family table
To mitigate the effects of systemic food shortages and periodic high food prices
To produce clean and safe food and diversify the diet of households
To teach a space-saving method of farming
To enable a household to save on the purchase of vegetables and raise cash by selling surplus vegetables
To empower women, socially and economically
To increase savings opportunities and further investment goals
To facilitate new social links
To increase community resilience and well-being