Double Your Impact for Women Fighting

the Global Food Crisis

Over the last several months, reports of a global food crisis have made frequent and alarming appearances in the nightly news. According to the World Food Programme, this spike in food prices has forced 100 million people into extreme poverty.

For the billions of people who live on less than $2 a day, the stakes of their daily struggle for survival have been raised impossibly high.

That’s why we’re pleased to announce that Women for Women International has received a pledge of $100,000 in matching funds to assist the women struggling with the food crisis.

Every donation we receive up until October 31st will be matched dollar for dollar, up to $100,000. That means your donation works twice as hard to benefit projects like the Commercial Farming Initiative (CIFI) in Sudan and Rwanda (upcoming) and other agriculturally based projects.

Today your donation will be doubled to help women in our program, in addition to those in Rwanda (upcoming) and Sudan, struggling with rising food costs. Support from you will help fund our projects where women are growing and selling food such as greenhouses in Kosovo and Bosnia and cows for milk farms in Kosovo.

In Spring, 2008, we launched our first ever Commercial Integrated Farming Initiative (CIFI), a program which will train 3,000 women over the course of three years with training in how to use sustainable farming practices to grow crops that can both be sold for profit in the local market and feed their families.

We now need your help to launch programs like the CIFI program in Sudan.

Once the CIFI program in Sudan is functioning at full capacity – which this matching gift will help us to accomplish – our aim is to bring the program to more countries where we work to help more women to feed their families and increase their income.

About 10 kilometers south of Rumbek in Southern Sudan, Women for Women International is helping women learn how to put food on the table, earn an income, and move from victim to survivor.

With your help, in just a few months, a plot of land that was once empty and unused is going to become green and lush, the ground covered with collard greens, bell peppers, watermelon, okra and more. A few hotels in Rumbek are already receiving small deliveries of vegetables, and have expressed great satisfaction with the quality of the product.

With 40% of food imported into Sudan, the demand for produce from CIFI far outpaces the current numbers of trained women in the program. More women in the program means more women creating sustainable solutions for Southern Sudan.