Livelihoods
help break the cycle of poverty
10% of the world lives on less than $1.90 a day. Some of the biggest tools to fight poverty come from the simplest solutions – training, loans, seeds, animals, and access to marketplaces. Helping people provide for themselves creates change that can be seen for generations. Women in particular experience the positive effects by being able to enter a marketplace previously closed to them and providing dependable income, self-reliance, and even safety, to them and their children.
Did you Know?
The agricultural sector remains the largest employment sector in most developing nations and has significant implications for the health and wellbeing of its people. Food security has complex links to economic development, environment, trade and health. Food security is the term used to describe the condition in which “all people at all times have access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to maintain a healthy and active life”. It is typically referred to as being built on the following three pillars:
- Food availability: sufficient quantities of food available on a consistent basis.
- Food access: having sufficient resources to obtain appropriate foods for a nutritious diet.
- Food use: appropriate use based on knowledge of basic nutrition and care, as well as adequate water and sanitation.
IMPACT
2,000 lives
One project alone made the world of difference for so many lives
