Families that can feed themselves and earn their own way.

We help households build lasting sources of food and income: healthy animals, productive gardens and skills that stay in the community.

Food & livelihoods Water & sanitation Nutrition Protection Education

A woman tends a vegetable plot beside a yellow water jerrycan

How we help

Livelihood support starts with what a household already has. We give children and families goats, train women and men in vegetable production, and work with community animal health workers to keep livestock healthy.

Goat distribution is also linked to school attendance, so a family’s asset and a child’s education grow together.

Goat distribution to children and households, linked to school attendance
Vegetable production training and demonstration plots
Livestock vaccination delivered with community animal health workers
Food and relief distributions during emergencies

Schoolchildren in green and yellow uniforms standing with goats — Children receive goats through RCO, an incentive that keeps them coming to school.

Women gather for a vegetable production training, with land being prepared — Vegetable production training.

Community animal health workers vaccinate cattle — Community animal health workers vaccinating livestock.

A health worker checks a goat during a distribution — Goat distribution.

Neat rows of seedlings under a thatch cover beside a community meeting — Seedbeds and a community session.

Related work

Connected programmes.

Nutrition

Practical support for mothers and young children.

Water, sanitation & hygiene

Boreholes and water points that bring safe water close to home.

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