Make a donation.
Past donations have created powerful roots for Ayirkasa.
The funds raised over the last couple of years have allowed us to purchase the land for our processing center as well as begin the construction process. Your donations also supported us through the COVID-19 crisis, providing us with PPE, money for testing, and food distribution
Our focus now is to begin processing and marketing our products. Our goal is to raise enough money to give us capital to begin this exciting endeavor.
We look forward to the processing center being built, but for now our priority is providing the women with working capital to tend to their crops, and market their products.
Our Five Year Plan
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Years One & Two
We will attend trainings, gaining knowledge from other women mentors in order to optimize our methods of production and collaborate.
Channels for sales will widen. We will begin to expand outside of Nandom, we will market to restaurants and businesses seeking local and organic produce .
We will be turning profits, allowing us to reinvest in Yirkasa which will result in other women being able to start their careers with Yirkasa.
From fundraising efforts we will be on the road to reaching our goal of 30,000 USD and accelerate construction of the processing center.
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Years Three & Four
We will have invested funders, helping to expand and support our network of women.
Greater variety in products women are creating will widen the network of consumers.
We will hold community trainings available to all, teaching our people about our agroecological values and techniques.
Work on our processing center will continue. By this stage we hope to have electricity and a borehole.
We will have healthier food more accessible to our community, children’s nutrition will improve.
We will focus on planting more fruit bearing trees which will provide us with nutrition and livelihoods.
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Year Five
We will have a functioning processing center, equipped with tools necessary enhance the quality and ease with which women are able to create.
We will have the space to begin our community garden as well as seed bank.
We will have animals which help nurture the soil for our garden with their manure.
Our market will be expanded to allow international sales and an online store.
We will have strong relationships with other local farmers and collectively push forward to create a more environmentally friendly, feminist, and ethical vision for farming.
Where your donations have gone.
In depth trainings on packaging, marketing, processing and sanitation
Purchase of land and building materials for the processing center
Support for the local seed bank
Funds necessary to acquire our business registration certificate
Support for repairs of bore holes and other gardening supplies
Initial capital for women to purchase raw materials to begin processing into product