Making a wonderful world on Earth Day and every day
As spring flourishes outside my office window and Earth Day approaches this month, Louis Armstrong’s song “What a Wonderful World” goes through my head. Global Impact celebrates the environment as April’s cause of the month as well. In honor of this month, I’ll share Armstrong’s lyrics that remind me of the ways that Global Impact’s […]
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SEED PROGRAMS INTERNATIONAL: THE BIRHAN LADIES: PLANTING CHANGE IN ETHIOPIA
GrowEastAfrica (GEA) and Seed Programs International (SPI) have partnered in Burji district to augment rural farmer families’ traditional knowledge about local farming and agriculture. By gaining access to high-quality vegetable seeds and learning new farming practices, families reduce their food vulnerability by growing nutritious vegetables and quinoa for self-sufficiency. The GEA-SPI partnership focuses on the […]
Give from home: Grow hope with Seed Programs International
In much of the U.S., few things exemplify the holiday season like food: heaping plates of turkey and mashed potatoes, mugs full of cocoa and cider, gingerbread houses with sticky gum drop windows, candy canes on trees, pie crust bursting with berries, or a glass of milk with cookies by the fire. However, around the […]
SEED PROGRAMS INTERNATIONAL: Ethiopia: Growing with Gratitude
Grow East Africa is a Seed Programs International partner working with about 1,000 families at a crossroads for Kenyan – Ethiopian IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons). Co-Founder Yohannes Chonde understands the families’ journey, the experience of displacement, and what they need to be successful because many of the families come from his ancestral home, Burji District. […]
Seed program packs nutrition, hope
“For now I ask no more than the justice of eating.” Pablo Neruda, Chilean Poet, Nobel Prize Winner. Saving the world starts with a seed – a seed of an idea, that grows with enough care, nourishment, attention, patience and determination to feed those who go hungry around the world every day. Saving the world […]