Anglican 2025 – Grow Hope Project: $39,500
This is the eighth season for Grow Hope. Once again Fred Wiebe of Springstein, Man. provided 40 acres of land and crop.
With donations from Parishes in the Diocese plus the net proceeds from the crop we were able to send
$39,500 to the Alongside Hope account in the Canadian Food Grains Bank. This is then matched 4:1 by the Government
and will provide sustainable agriculture assistance and training to Marsabit County in Kenya that has seen the worse drought in 40 years.
Thanks to everyone for their generous support.
Anglican 2024 Grow Hope Project: Support for Drought Affected Communities in Kenya – $35,000
For the last several years, the Diocese of Rupert’s Land has supported the Grow Hope initiative through the Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF), in partnership with the Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB). Last year was a very successful program, with the Diocese of Rupert’s Land raising over $47,000 to support a program in Tanzania to support Congolese refugees – the highest amount of any Diocese across Canada! This year’s campaign is focused on a project supporting 330 drought affected households in 4 communities of Laisamis sub-County in Marsabit County in Kenya.
This is a joint initiative between the Canadian Foodgrains Bank and The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund, in which crops are grown in order to create revenue to alleviate hunger worldwide.
We are happy to announce that Fred Wiebe is once again providing land to grow a crop this year with proceeds going to a “Vegetable and Reforestation Project” in Tanzania.
The Refugee project is in Nyarugusu refugee camp which has 150,000 refugees. It is in the western province of Kigoma, Tanzania, about 150 km east of Lake Tanganyika.
CWS has been given land by the camp management to establish vegetable production training centres and it is here the farmers are able to plant vegetables. These centres are near water sources, and they are able to do drip irrigation during the dry season for both the trees and vegetables. The project beneficiaries sell the surplus vegetables as they plant more than what they need at household level.
Donations can be made to St. Thomas with Anglican Grow Hope in the memo line.