The Canadian Haley-McCready Outreach and Development Fund has had a productive year. Most of our Newsletters describe our agriculture projects and report on their activities, progress, results and benefits. Once a year, we try to encourage donations. If you have already donated this year, thank you very much. If you have not yet donated, please consider doing so before the end of the year. As you probably know and understand, all of each donation goes to direct support for our agriculture development projects and our projects are successful.

Once a year, we remind our readers that we need donations in order to continue providing our one-time, start-up grants to self-help associations of poor women who work together on crop cultivation, animal husbandry and microfinancing. We know that our agriculture development projects become self-supporting, self-managing, self-governing and self-sustaining. We believe that your donations are very good investments in agriculture development because we know that our projects are long-lasting, alleviate poverty and improve the lives of our project beneficiaries and their family members. Moreover, we now believe the time has come that we need to do more and do better.

We believe your donations are very good investments because our agriculture development projects produce impressive results and impressive benefits. This year we were able to provide grants to 5 new projects; the largest number of projects we have started in any one year. The 5 new projects have a total of 8 new Project Managers and 7 of the new Project Managers (87.5%) are Hope Africa University Agriculture Program Graduates. The new projects include our first project in the often overlooked CANKUZO Province and it has our first Project Coach; Epithace NDUWAYO, an experienced Project Manager originally from CANKUZO Province.

Impressive Results (see list of projects below)

• We have a total of 13 active agriculture development projects and one of the projects was started without a grant
• We have 13 self-help project associations and one of the project associations was started without a grant
• We have agriculture development projects in 7 provinces, 11 communes and 12 collines
• We have 16 Project Managers and 11 are Hope Africa University Agriculture Program Graduates

Impressive Benefits 

• Our agriculture development projects currently have 133 beneficiaries; poor, vulnerable women 
• Our project beneficiaries have about 798 family members who benefit from our projects
• Our agriculture projects have cultivated and harvested a variety and a number of crops (vegetables and grains)
• Our agriculture projects have shared a portion of the harvests with the beneficiaries and their family members
• Our agriculture projects have sold a portion of the harvests to generate income for the association to continue with self-supporting crop cultivation 
• Our agriculture development projects currently have a total of 42 animals (goats and pigs)
• Our agriculture projects have sold 3 animals to generate income for the association and the beneficiaries 
• Our projects have developed microfinancing so our beneficiaries and their family members are benefitting from income-generating activities 

Thirteen Agriculture Development Projects

2024

• Cultivating White Potatoes, Maize and Red Onions and Breeding Goats for 10 Vulnerable Women from Mukonko Hill, Matara Zone, NYABIRABA Commune in BUJUMBURA Province, Project Managers: Alice NIHORIMBERE and Divine ICOYITUNGIYE
• Raising the Socio-Economic Welfare of Vulnerable Women by Cultivating Crops and Breeding Pigs in Bubanza Province and Commune at Kabirizi Colline, Project Manager: Ange Paulette GIRIZINA
• Supporting Single Mothers of SASWE Colline, KIGAMBA Commune in CANKUZO Province through Cultivating Potatoes and Breeding Goats, Project Managers: Divine NIRAGIRA and Sylvie NDAYIRUKIYE
• Cultivating Beans and Corn and Raising Goats for Vulnerable Women in Kaburantwa Colline, Buganda Commune in Cibitoke Province, Project Managers: Emmanuel IRANDIHA and Adolphe NIYUBUNTU
• Growing Maize and Beans and Raising Goats for Vulnerable Women in the Bumbiri II and Kaburantwa Sectors, Gasenyi Zone, Buganda Commune, Cibitoke Province, Project Manager: Sadi BIGIRIMANA
• NEW NO-GRANT PROJECT: Cultivating Crops and Breeding Pigs for Youth in Musave Colline, Kayanza Commune, Kayanza Province, Project Manager: Abbie RUBUMBA

2023

• Empowering Vulnerable Women from Kayanza Province, Kabarore Commune at Caratsi Hill by Cultivating Crops and Breeding Pigs, Project Manager: Abbie RUBUMBA
• Cultivating White Potatoes and Cabbage and Breeding Pigs for Vulnerable Women from Gitunga Hill, Muyebe Zone, Kayokwe Commune, Mwaro Province, Project Manager: Alfred BIKORIMANA
• Supporting Vulnerable Women from Bujumbura Province, Isale Commune, Nyakibande Hill by Cultivating Corn and Beans and Breeding Goats, Project Managers: Christian NIYIBIKUNZE and Nelly SIBOMANA
• Cultivating Maize and Soya and Breeding Pigs for Vulnerable Women from Rugombo, Munyika II, Cibitoke Province, Project Manager: Mathieu NIYONKURU

2022

• Cultivating Cabbages and Breeding Pigs for Poor and Vulnerable Women from Nderama Hill, Bukinanyana Commune, Cibitoke Province, Project Manager: Etienne KATABIRORA
• Supporting Vulnerable Women in Cultivating Corn and Breeding Goats at Ndava Hill, Buganda Commune, Cibitoke Province, Project Manager: Fabien BIMENYIMANA
• Supporting Vulnerable Women and Girls to Improve Their Socio-Economic Situation by Farming Potatoes and Breeding Pigs in Migano Village, Bukirasazi Commune, Gitega Province, Project Manager: Prosper NIYONGERE

Needing Your Help to Do More and Do Better

We want to be able to continue with our agriculture development work but we want to do more and do better. We want: (1) to seize the opportunity to start more new projects each year; and, (2) to make more connections with the Hope Africa University’s Agriculture Program Graduates. The Agriculture Program Graduates can be Project Managers and Connected Project Advisors, visit our agriculture development projects frequently and help our project beneficiaries; community farmers, learn to use much more productive agriculture methods.  

We know that your donations are sound investments in alleviating poverty, improving lives and making a difference through long-lasting agriculture development projects in Burundi. Please continue to donate to the H-MODF, please donate generously and please encourage your family members, friends, contacts, workmates and fellow group members to consider donating and investing in agriculture development that really works. Please help us do more and do better for poor families in Burundi.

Please consider giving, please consider investing before the end of this year. To donate, please visit: Donations – Haley-McCready Outreach and Development Fund.