Many people are asking what they can do to help. Here are some suggestions.
One way that people can help is to send a team of volunteers.
Volunteer teams numbering from 4 to 10 persons are welcome throughout the year. Larger groups can be accommodated. Contact us by phone or e-mail to fix dates and make reservations for your visit.
Trip objectives include the following
Tree planting - accept the challenge to plant 100 or more trees.
Survey work - venture into the interior to survey conditions in crop regions.
Partner support - help our local partners with home repairs, automobile maintenance, and other odd jobs that can improve their day to day family life situation.
Volunteer with the grounds crew at the Kiffa Hospital - Kiffa was the site of a grounds renewal project in 2007. Spend a week engaged in landscape work.
A second way that you can help is to send money to fund a project.
We can do the work on your behalf, but we need funding to buy the project materials and pay the laborer. Here are five ideas.
1. Plant a tree in a poor neighborhood of
2. Buy the material for a teenage boy or girl to make a rabbit cage and start raising rabbits at home. Cage material $16. Rabbit $14 Total Cost $30
3. Give a gift basket. Food gifts target the
poorest of the poor in
4. Start a family producing eggs at home.
Cage $100 12 hens $50
Bi-monthly support visits from ADI's extension agent / trainer $100 Total Cost $250
5. Invest in an agriculture based business. Contact us to hear of some of the opportunities that we see for stand alone businesses based on agriculture. Act as a Director to govern your investment and encourage your local business manager.
A third way that you can help is to be an administrative volunteer.
Manage an address list, offer technical support for the
website, or serve as a telephone contact. We need administrative
support people who live in the
A fourth way that you can help is to offer your encouragement.
Let us know of your support for ADI's work to reduce hunger. Send us a note, and tell us what you think. With a donation of $10 we can cover the cost of mailing your newsletter.
Please direct contributions and state-side communication to the address below.