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in recent years there has been this idea of people in the community we work in saving money little by little in a financial organisation so they can borrow in form of soft loans. the experience has been that they sell their agricultural products to save some money and this was an expoerience that prompted us to think through, alot of this people are not employed but they do farming for their living, once they harvest their crops they sell them so that they can save the money , yes this is a good idea but it didnt work foir them last season because there was a drought and people had to borrow money to buy food and at this point because of the drought the food was very espensive so the money could not buy enough food.
so this season we have mmobilized people to farm and save their food and keep farming as they save the food and incase ony of the families is dying of hunger in the group they can buy at al ow price, and incase of drought they are able to have food for themselves , we want to develop the culture of people saving food for the dry seasons instead of always havinbg droughts which leave peoplle dead or soo hungry ,
6 families have joined in and are now having a common land but also are saving food little by little and preserving it and we are sure this might help someone who might be in need few months from now.
well we hope to keep equiping and developing this people so they can depend on themselves and take up agriculture as a source of income and utilize it .
we have also encouraged some members to rare chicken and even keep bees and we hope that this will earn a living for someone.

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