Farming beans

Our most sustainable project for school education is agriculture

With solidarity-based agriculture, we sustainably promote children's school education

Because we are creating a project for parents that empowers them to pay school fees for their children themselves.

What we do

There are several hectares of unused land on the Osinantei Primary School site, which was released by the Maasai Council for our project.


Together with the parents, the headmaster has now defined 2.5 hectares on which the first field for bean cultivation will be created. This is scheduled to be planted for the first time on March 15, 2024. 


The parents clear the bushes and help fence in the land. Hold my Hand finances the material for the fence, the plowing of the land and the seeds. 


The parents sow the beans, tend the fields, guard them at night and harvest the beans in joint work in solidarity. 


The seeds for the next sowing are retained and the rest of the beans are sold on the market. Parents use the proceeds to pay school fees.

 

 This creates a sustainable cycle, because the next time the parents sow, they are only minimally dependent on help from Hold my Hand.

 

What you can do

We need around 2,500 Swiss francs by March 1, 2024 to grow beans on the first 2.5 hectares.


  • With 50 CHF enable bean cultivation on 500m2. The harvest finances the school fees for 2 children.
  • With 100 CHF enable bean cultivation on 1000m2. The harvest finances the school fees for 4 children.
  • With 210 CHF enable plowing of the entire arable land of 2.5 hectares.


Donations to Hold my Hand are tax-exempt


You can support us by Twint (Swiss mobile transfer app), bank transfer or using the form below. 


Thank you very much in advance!

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