Africa Windmill Project Inc

Target demographics: Rural Families End The Hunger Season

Direct beneficiaries per year: 3600 farmers + families, communities & markets

Geographic areas served: Malawi

Programs: Accomplishment africa windmill project (awp) held trainings for 1600 new farmers in 2017. Awp supported area villages, ministries within the government and local organizations. A majority of our trainings focused on food security and garden management. We focused on education in garden preparation, planting, fertilizing, weeding, pest control, proper irrigation and harvesting. We also continued training in farm management and planning field to market opportunities with farmers from previous years. Key performance indicators farmers that have implemented irrigation agriculture are food secure. Farmers are completely self-sufficient (not relying on outside aid for inputs). Farmers have increased their income and garden sizes. The farmers are planning and preparing for next season. Families are able to store grain for food security later and for staggered sales to local markets to increase their income. Farmers use income generated from irrigation agriculture to improve living conditions (replacing roofs, flooring, sun-dried bricks are replaced with fired bricks, and they have added doors and windows). Farmers that have not worked with awp are utilizing irrigation agriculture based upon observation and conversations with neighboring communities (the trainings are self-replicating without awp). Africa windmill project continues to raise awareness in the united states about sustainable support that empowers families to become food secure. Our slogan "end hunger: grow food" is relevant to concerns within the us and all over the globe. Approximately 1,448 volunteer hours were contributed for the running and operational effort of this program.