The father of Bridget Mukashema stands beside the garden he cultivated with FALCCO support under the economic empowerment programme. The family is harvesting irish potatoes now from the garden and there is still some maize to be harvested in January. He has told us that it has been a great boost for him because he has a large family and feeding them sometimes is a challenge. he is now grateful for the support because he can feed his family in this season and is selling some of the crops to get money for their welfare, and offcourse he has kept some seed for the next planting season.

It is common here for families that don't have land to hire someone else's land for two or more seasons and cultivate in it. FALCCO seeks to ensure that each family has food security in addition to growing for commercial purposes. We will do this by supporting families to hire land for cultivation beginning with those who don't have at all.