New skills learned means the difference between going hungry or not.

“A cow can be taken from me - so give me knowledge because it cannot be stolen and I will share it with as many others as will listen.” Pastor Stephen Reech – ELI Sudan

It is amazing to see how knowledge can impact a life! New skills learned means the difference between going hungry or not. The difference between moving forward with a sense of confidence or remaining stuck in a spiral that moves people down a path toward hopeless days and unpredictable futures. Over 2 billion people live on less than $2 a day. Poverty can grab, hold, choke, and dissolve ambition from those in its grasp. The challenge of empowering lives in Africa is great, but so is our determination to make a difference – to infuse and multiply real hope into real lives that change the course of a person’s identity and future. The FARMER FIELD SCHOOL program is a dynamic training that moves INTO the communities and out into the villages where the needy need the ideas and training the most. Beginning with a core of trained community farmers – the training branches out as the trained farmers begin passing that knowledge, in a systematic way, on to their neighbors – who in turn do the same again. ELI staff meet the farmers once a month to provide incentive, new knowledge, and do effective follow-up to ensure that the knowledge gained is being applied in an effective and successful way. The goal is to help the farmers learn a process whereby they are able to develop their own agriculture and animal production.

This program is growing in dynamic ways and is among our most cost- effective ways to help people break the cycle of poverty.