Efforts to improve agriculture in Kenya often miss the mark by targeting men instead of women. One woman spent 20 years organizing female farmers to share investments and training. Now men are joining too, and the women's work is paying off.
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Sale of PhotoVoice Photographs
London International Development Centre, 36 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PD
Thursday 4 December 2008
5pm-with wine and nibbles
You are invited to attend a sale of photographs by UK NGO, PhotoVoice currently exhibited at LIDC. Representatives from PhotoVoice will explain more about how their award-winning international charity (www.photovoice.org) empowers some of the most disadvantaged groups in the world with photographic skills and equipment. Through establishing in-field photojournalism workshops, its projects enable those who are traditionally the subjects of photography to become its creator. Through photography these individuals find confidence in their voices and are enabled to speak out about their challenges, concerns, hopes and fears.
PhotoVoice projects span four continents, assisting refugees, street children, orphans, HIV/ AIDS sufferers and special needs groups. Internationally the organisation provides the platform for these photographers to exhibit and market their work . It also provides long-term support for individuals to pursue careers in their local photographic industries.
Raffle prize
A 12"x 16" print of your choice from one of the images online at http://picasaweb.google.com/projectsphotovoice/LIDCFinalEdit?authkey=PEvRtWMchSs# will be raffled off at the event (tickets £1 each).
Discounted photos
PhotoVoice will be selling heavily discounted copies of the pictures exhibited inside LIDC's building at 36 Gordon Square (pictures online at http://picasaweb.google.com/projectsphotovoice/LIDCFinalEdit?authkey=PEvRtWMchSs# ). A couple of the pictures are also attached.
8" x 10": £25
12" x 16": £50 (usual price £125)
Framed 12"x 16" (as per exhibition): £85
PhotoVoice have guaranteed delivery in time for Christmas so we hope that these pictures may make good Christmas presents!
I hope you are able to join us.
Best wishes
Abby
The U.N.'s World Food Program will spend $1 billion buying food for the hungry this year, up $230 million from 2007.
Now the organization is trying to reach beyond simply handing out sacks of Western grain to help feed emaciated children. It wants to stimulate farmers to produce more — and replace those shipments from U.S. and other agribusinesses — by providing a reliable market for their local crops.
The WFP is mounting this new effort in 21 countries, mostly in Africa, against the backdrop of a global food crisis with many causes, among them Africa's long-running failure to feed itself. But experts say still more will be needed for a turnaround in African agriculture.
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In collaboration with Gates Foundation and IDE, IDEO created a Human Centered Design toolkit. This resource was created to help organizations working with smallholder farmers better understand the needs of the farmers and design appropriate tools, technologies, programs, or services for and with them.
Please feel free to download the toolkit and share your comments about it here.
