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Resource ID
11314
Access
Restricted
Consent?
yes, gathered by Farm Africa
Any restrictions on use?
Yes - do not use until YESA appeal launches Jan 2017
Photographer Credit
Tara Carey
Names of people featured
Peninah Nasiyumu, husband Isaac and children Hillary and Chantelle
Country (mandatory)
Kenya, Africa
Type of work (General)
Crops
Specific keywords
Crops
Crops
beans
additional not included in options above - describing the content and style of the resource
french beans, kale
Date resource was created on location
06 December 16 @ 17:34
Staff member content was gathered by
Tara Carey and Jenni Bright
Caption
Peninah Nasiyumu, 22, her husband Isaac, and their children Hillary (boy, 2 and a half) and Chantelle (1)
Project (Kenya)
Youth Empowerment in Sustainable Agriculture (YESA)
Farm Africa’s Youth Empowerment in Sustainable Agriculture (YESA) project is working to build young people’s interest in agricultural enterprises. These help generate income, create resilience and empower young people to become business leaders in their communities.
YESA creates, strengthens and supports youth groups to establish and manage agricultural businesses. The project provides training and technical assistance in agronomy, helps groups to market their products and encourages members to become active in local politics and governance.
YESA is partnering with 87 youth groups in Trans Nzoia County, with a total of 2,300 members (47% of which are women)
Quotes
Did not finish primary school, I finished in class 8 when I was 12 years old, I was living with my parents and had to help them on their farm planting sugarcane, my family didn’t have enough money to send me to high school
I want money to do stuff, I would like to get some land for my family and to buy some cows and chickens
I want to get my children a good education and food on the table
In my spare time I sleep
Young people can result to steeling if they don’t have a good job to earn them some money
More people want to join our group, it has a good reputation in the community, even with the chief
In three years time we want to be able to help each other within the group, we already get on with each other really well
My biggest challenge as a young mum is that I have no free time, after I have looked after my children, the farm and done housework
I don’t have my own land, I have to rent
Biggest benefit is that when we harvest we can store our produce in the charcoal fridge, which keeps the produce fresh for two days
Just Isaac I would get paid 300 shillings a day, not every day
Working on your own farm pays more than working on someone else’s farm. I felt discouraged working on other peoples land but I had hope that one day I would engage myself in my own work.
Many young people do not want to follow work in the farm, many are looking for white colour jobs which are hard to get
I do not feel like really being employed, I want to be self-employed on my own farm, I love the work I do in the farm and it pays me directly
When I found out about French beans I know that I can have different sources of income from different types of crops, I learned this from Farm Africa
Our farm is the same, but sometimes we farm different bits of it
Before we used to get between 5000 and 6000 shillings a month, which involved doing casual labour on other people’s farms, and now we earn 15,000 to 20,000 shilling
We are using the money to expand our farming and do stuff about, we take care of food, clothing, we recently refurbished our house, and on health
120 and 520 shillings a week we save each in table banking each week
We used a loan to buy chemicals for our tomatoes, and also to buy quality seeds to plant some French beans
Isaac:
We used to start harvesting early because the weather would be bad later in the day, by the afternoon we would finish and then would have to story our harvest in a sack or a shed, it would cause dhydration and we would lose some of the produce
Now with the charcoal fridge we can store for two days without losing anything
We were losing up to 50% before, we would lose moral and it would really hurt and it stopped our appetite to engage more in farming
P – it used to make me feel like I didn’t want to work in the farm anymore because it felt like we were wasting our energy because it was getting spoilt
The group enables us to work together and we appreciate each, our friendship is such that we can assist each other, we know each other’s weaknesses, we will always be there for each other, in good times and bad. My friends help me a lot, they give me advice, we help each other to know how we can develop in our own houses
When I have free time I like to spend it with my children.
VEGPRO
They take whatever quanties we produce, whether it is a little or a lot, and they do not reject too much
They pay when they say they will
Farm Africa has given us a lot of support in training and has helped up with start-up inputs to start out business
Since we started working with Farm Africa, we have been able to expand our business, farm more land, and improve our home.
Through the support of Farm Africa and the people who fund it, my future plans of owning my own farm and house, but if that involvement does not continue it will take longer to fulfil my dream
If it wasn’t for Farm Africa I wouldn’t have even known there was something called French beans, or how to use chemicals
There are some farming technologies we wouldn’t know about
We would still be going out to look for casual jobs, we wouldn’t have a lot of knowledge to explore farming the way they are now
Many people now view me as an important person in the community, especially in terms of having useful information, anything to do with production of French beans they consult me, most people do not know the different between Vegpro and Farm Africa, so he explains, contulted a lot
It feels nice to help people because I have put myself in that position as a leader to help and have no boundaries, I am happy to share my knowledge with everyone.
Marker lat / long: 1, 38 (WGS84)
Public: African agriculture key to SDG 8
Public: Growing Futures
Public: YESA pictures August 2016