Hello gardeners. Yesterday, you added a generous heap of aged compost to our bid to win America’s Giving Challenge and our entry is growing vigorously. In the span of three days, we’ve moved from 1827th place (i.e. dead last) into 27th place as of this morning. We need to keep building momentum if we are to have a shot at the $50,000 prize. Please $10 donate today and as often as you can between now and Nov 6th. We’re going to need all the gardeners we can gather to win this grant for the gardening cause. Thanks.
3 months ago
Kitchen Gardeners International (KGI) is working through its members and partners to plant school gardens around the world. The Centro Escolar Los Gramales (The Gramales Scholastic Center) of Morazan, El Salvador is just one school we have helped.
Aiming to add vegetables to the traditional community diet of beans, rice and tortillas, the school started a kitchen garden with tomatoes, peppers and pipian, a type of squash. After witnessing the great success of their organic garden, many local parents are now beginning to compost and garden with their children at home. That is the power of school gardens: that what happens at school doesn’t stay at school, but is passed on to and shared with family members to the benefit of the larger community.
That also happens to be the power of our “Crush Hunger” campaign. After donating, please share it with your friends and family so that we can win the America’s Giving Challenge and help more schools around the world to plant healthy gardens. Thanks.
3 months ago
We’re pushing hard to finish in second place today in the America’s Giving Challenge daily challenge (the Cause that can generate the most donations in a 24 hour period) and need another 20 $10 donations in the next 2 hours to make it happen. A second place finish would help us win a $500 grant from the Case Foundation. $500 can go a long way to plant vegetable gardens in the developing world.
If you haven’t donated today, please do so now:
3 months ago
We had ourselves a big HUGE day yesterday in the giving challenge. We ended the day Sunday in 685th place and woke up this morning to see that we were in 68th place in the overall standings and third place in the daily standings! We need to keep pushing hard though. If we can move into second place in the daily standings, we can secure a bonus grant of $500 from the Case Foundation. Please make your donation by 3pm (Eastern) today. Thanks!
3 months ago
According to a new report issues by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Kenya’s hunger rating has moved from “serious” to “alarming” in the past year. KGI is working with organic gardeners and small-holder farmers in Kenya to teach organic techniques and dig new school gardens that will allow them to become more food secure as the country’s attempts tries to limp through some of the worst droughts it has seen in many years.
3 months ago
We started the day tied for 1827th place - dead last - and finished in 685th. The crushing has just begun.
3 months ago
Kitchen Gardeners International (KGI) is helping many people and groups around the world and we’ll be using the CrushHunger blog to share some of their stories. One of the groups we supported with a minigrant is Gargy Shiksha Sadan near Kathmandu, Nepal. In this cold region with mainly yak farming and little fertile land, most of the people suffer from malnutrition. The Gargy Shiksha Sadan kitchen garden program was launched to improve the health of the community. The two women shown are working in their new cauliflower field. Your donation to KGI between now and November 6th will help us leverage a $50,000 grant from the Case Foundation which we’ll use to help more groups to become more self-reliant in their food production. You can make this grant happen by donating as little as $10 and encouraging your friends to do the same. Thanks.
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