The woman in the photo above is a farmer named Amarch Sama. She lives in an area called Meteka Mele, Ethiopia. Earlier this year, she was sharing with Nuru that for the last several years her family has gone through a six month hunger season. This hunger season has led to a lack of savings, and even difficulty buying seed and fertilizer for the next year. Rather than opportunities and choices, her life was defined by anxiety. “How will I be able to feed my children? What happens if someone becomes ill? How will we save for the future?”
This year, all of those
anxieties began to melt away. Amarch and 487 other farmers in Ethiopia joined
Nuru and began to learn better farming techniques. They began farming as
groups, and the community grew closer. When harvest came, Amarch and her
neighbors were thrilled to see incredible yields of maize and beans because they knew that hunger would not be part
of their future.
And this year, Nuru is working hard to help 1,700 farmers like Amarch to begin to lift their families out of extreme poverty for good! To do it, together we need to raise $350,000 this month to begin implementing our programs. Thankfully, to help us get started we had a generous donor step forward to match every donation that comes in TODAY (December 2 2014), up to $15,000. So if you give to Nuru in honor of #GivingTuesday, your donation will be doubled! How cool is that?
Will you help us maximize this match by donating today? With your help, Nuru can raise $30,000 today and be far along the way to raising $350,000 by the end of the year!
Also check out this video if you would like to learn more about Amarch, about Nuru, and about Nuru's plans for 2015!
