Community Food Gardens

Children's Hunger Relief Fund's Food Garden Program helps desperate families find their way out of poverty. Learning new agricultural techniques to successfully plant, nurture, and harvest crops for their own food supply or to sell for profit helps families and communities rise above discriminating odds. With our donors' support, CHRF supplies the seeds, tools, and training these willing families need to get started.

In South Africa and Kenya, we have established hundreds of food gardens, designed to support a family of eight, in addition to a model "community garden," designed to support a minimum of forty families.

Each garden provides a range of fresh fruit and vegetables, including carrots, spinach, beetroot, tomatoes, cabbage, etc. Families are trained to sell excess crops in the local marketplace to earn money for necessities. Many families donate some of their excess produce to other families that are destitute or to homeless children who have no other access to food.

With your help,
we can help thousands of families in Africa as well as Central America reach self-ufficiency.

Micro-Enterprises

To break the never-ending cycle of despair and poverty, to build self-sufficient families, and to provide work for the jobless, CHRF sponsors micro-enterprise loans (Small Family Business Loans).

A typical loan amount is $500 to $1,000 and is used to buy enough equipment and supplies to start or expand a small business. The process of training families to manage successful businesses and teaching them principles of community stewardship is an integral part of the program.

Small Family Business Loans may be used to build a small vegetable stand, start a jewelry shop, or to buy supplies such as a coffee grinder for selling coffee on the streets, a cooler for selling cold drinks, a refrigerator for street vendors to store their meat, a sewing machine for clothing repair, or shoe cobbling tools. Loans can also supply mechanic's tools used in auto repair or tools for farming or for the purchase of pigs and chickens to start rural enterprises.

Micro-enterprise loans provide a unique opportunity to impact the future of thousands of families and their children. You are invited to join us in this proven program to provide families with an opportunity to break the cycle of poverty in their lives and become productive members or leaders of their community.

CHRF's donors have sponsored
over 1,300 successful businesses!