FIGHTING POVERTY
Help realize a better tomorrow and a hopeful future for a family or a community with your gift today. Maintaining livestock or a farm is an empowering and dignifying means to strengthen families and to help them flourish. The income from selling eggs or selective crops can help pay for school fees, medication or other essentials.
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Pair of Rabbits
Rabbits are a very cost-effective and non-labour intensive animal to raise, producing highly nutritious meat along with enriching manure which can greatly improve soil quality. Rabbits are also highly reproductive and grow rapidly, leading to a very profitable animal for a family to raise.
Cow
While cows require more living space than poultry or rabbits, the fresh milk that they provide is invaluable for a family’s nutrition and health, while also being an important resource to be sold at the market for a steady income. Cows can have up to four calves in their lifetime, which can lead to a herd.
Sponsor an Acre of a Growing Project
Sponsor an acre of land, which includes a land lease, seeds, fertilizer and chemicals. A community of Canadian farmers will grow crops for you, proceeds of which will go to overseas CBM food relief and agricultural development projects through the Foodgrains Bank.
Vegetable Kitchen
Garden for a Family
In Bolivia, families who live in rural areas have limited access to food. This affects both their emotional and physical health. By providing other means to receive better nutrition, such as by growing vegetable kitchen gardens, local families can have a better quality of life. Each family will receive construction materials, seeds and agricultural supplies.
Garden of Hope
Nazario lives in a remote area in Bolivia, where his nearest neighbour is almost an hour away by foot, and where Chagas disease is rampant – a disease common in rural areas of Latin America where poverty is widespread. He recently lost his wife, which took a great toll on Nazario and his family, as well as their family’s resources.
However, through CBM’s Chagas program, which provides prevention, education and treatment of the disease in partnership with local communities and agencies, participants like Nazario also receive crucial farming provisions, allowing him to grow and produce crops which help provide a source of income, while also feeding his family.
Nazario also received assistance to improve his home so that his family would have greater protection against catching the disease. While making his home safe for his children, they too have benefited from the emotional, spiritual and physical support provided through the program.
