A loan helped a member to gain access to cost efficient hybrid seeds and fertilizer for maize cultivation.


Caren's Group's story

This season is not the first one that Caren is working alongside One Acre Fund. She has been a member for a few years now, having joined the program in 2015 and, although she is the only person featured in the above picture, she is actually representing her group of 11 farmers in Alego District, Kenya.

Caren is often described by her community as a very friendly person and decided to be the one to represent her group because she likes being a leader. Like many of her fellow farmers, Caren decided she wanted to be part of the One Acre Fund community in order to earn enough to feed her family and hopes to use the profits from this year’s harvest to send her children to school.

This loan will not only help Caren but the whole group, who will receive maize seeds and fertilizer to plant a total of 7 acres of land.

In this group: Caren, Risper, Lilian, Caroline, Benta, Margaret, Rose, Mary, Millicent, Suslia, Christopher O


This loan is special because:

It supports smallholder farmers to purchase seeds and solar lanterns.



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