Dairy Farming

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Dairy Farming

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[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_section css=”.vc_custom_1562424945729{padding-top: 40px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”20006″ img_size=”full”][vc_empty_space height=”15px”][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeIn”]Women groups have been provided with dairy cattle through a scheme that will ensure each one of the members gets a dairy cow, providing family with milk for both home consumption and sale. This has raised the socio-economic status of the family and community, and enhanced the profile of the beneficial women, both in the home and in the community.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”20003″ img_size=”full”][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeIn”]The number of families that have benefited from this project continues to grow. Currently standing at 60, the number should hit the 200 mark by mid 2005, thanks to Monsanto Foundation support that will see us distribute 100 more dairy animals in the third quarter of this year.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1562591538165{padding-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]

More Projects

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Innovating Rural Smallholder Farming

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Integrated Soil Fertility Management (ISFM)

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The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)-funded soil health project dubbed Integrated Soil Fertility (ISFM) was implemented from 2011 to 2014 for phase one, and 2015 to 2018 for phase two.

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Nutrition and Food Security

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Butere Division Project

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The Food Security and Nutrition Improvement intervention in Western Kenya came at a time when the country was reportedly 400,000 MT in deficit on the main staple crop. This resulted from the fact that 4 million people were in dire need of food aid after the country was hit by its worst drought in 37 years and was expected to worsen.

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Nutrition & Food Security

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African Leafy Vegetables (ALVs) Project

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The project mainly concentrated on Corchorus olitorus (Jews-mallow) Crotaloria brevidens (Sun hemp), Gynadropsis gyanandra (black nightshade), Amaranths ssp (amaranths) and Vigna ungiculata (Cowpeas). An impact assessment in the last year of the project revealed that 70% of the project beneficiaries were women, and 12% youth farmers.

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Water, Sanitation & Health

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Sustainable Water Harvesting & Wetland Utilization in Butere Sub-County

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The project was initiated in 1998 with the generous support from the Headley Trust, UK ( one of the Lord Sainsbury’s Trusts) and it envisaged to ensure that: community members from Butere/ Mumias district access clean potable water, better health and sanitation, clean environment, and better protected and utilized riverbeds.

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Water, Sanitation & Health

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Shikunga HIV/ AID Recourse Center

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ROA in collaboration with Gatsby Foundation-UK set up the Shikunga HIV/AIDS Resource Center in 2003 in Butere sub-county. This was a community-initiated project derived from the need by the local community project management committee to respond to challenges posed by the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

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Water, Sanitation & Health

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Distribution of Sanitary Pads to School Girls Project

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In October 2018, ROA distributed sanitary pads to girls in a few schools in Kakamega County as a menstrual hygiene intervention to reduce school absenteeism. ROA staffs Doris, Makeba and Andala presented 99 packets of pads to classes 7 and 8 girls in Emukangu primary school.

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