C H O I C E Humanitarian - Feed The World SRA

C H O I C E Humanitarian - Feed The World SRA 'Growing People from the Ground Up' through community development and self-reliance. (Formerly The Institute for Self-Reliant Agriculture or TIFSRA)

The Food and Agricultural Organization of the U.N. (FAO) has defined poverty as not knowing where one’s next meal is coming from. Over one billion people in the world today live in poverty, and malnutrition-based hunger is the number one health risk in the world today. The FAO estimates that rural populations account for approximately 75% of the hungry worldwide. Many have land they could use to g

row food, but lack the knowledge to feed their families effectively and nutritiously. Hence, sixty percent of the 10.9 million child deaths each year in the developing world are linked to poor nutrition, and 1 out of every 4 children is underweight. Their families are forgotten and starving and have little hope of achieving anything more than mere survival. Competition with large-scale agribusiness merely intensifies the problem. The families need to become self-reliant. They have the land. They need appropriate knowledge about nutrition, sanitation, crops, and agronomy, and they need some inputs to get started. That is where the Institute for Self-Reliant Agriculture (SRA) comes in. SRA helps the impoverished, indigenous, landed farmer obtain nutritional self-sufficiency first, and economic participation, later, once the family is healthy and well-fed. SRA achieves this through education, side by side, day by day, starting with the most immediate needs. Families are taught healthy habits, hygiene, and how to produce food within 60 days in rotational gardens using 1 hectare/2.47 acres of land. They learn to work with simple technology and low-cost solutions, how to raise small animals, and how to grow all they need for food, fodder and fertilizer on their own land. After the nutritional needs of the family are met, excess production is marketed through mobile marketing, farmer cooperatives, etc. and once families reach self-sufficiency (usually in 3-5 years) they graduate and are able to sustain their own program without the help of SRA. The pride, empowerment, dignity and integrity that comes from the positive results of honest work and commitment reinforce the community's expectation for a fair system where hard work is rewarded while ensuring that the social fabric remains strong through trust and reliability. Further ensuring a better future, SRA programs allow children to go to school instead of working to make money. Their improved health leads to better brain function and development, and decreases the number of sick days taken so that they can live happier, focus better, and continue attending school. Every year they are in school, their lifetime earning potential increases by as much as 10% and only 4 years of primary school increases and a farmer’s productivity by nearly 9%. The hope of every family – the aspiration to a brighter future for themselves, their children and their grandchildren – is strong in SRA participants because they are empowered to achieve it. With a brighter outlook, they accomplish their goals one by one, and as a family – because SRA programs allow families to stay together by providing the means to escape poverty and eliminate hunger right at home.

What a wonderful opportunity to gather and raise funds for an amazing cause.
10/24/2024

What a wonderful opportunity to gather and raise funds for an amazing cause.

The CHOICE Humanitarian Peru team is helping families improve their lives with great agriculture projects!
10/24/2024

The CHOICE Humanitarian Peru team is helping families improve their lives with great agriculture projects!

How can you get involved to end world poverty?
10/17/2024

How can you get involved to end world poverty?

Today for World Poverty Day, learn Sanu's story. 🌏 Sanu lives in a rural community in the outskirts of Mahankal, Nepal. She’s a widow, and at 65 years old, she was one of the billion people in the world who lacks access to clean water, food, or medicine.

In a Utah Business article by CHOICE Humanitarian CEO, Heather Cruz, find out how that changed for Sanu. Plus, learn how Utahns—or anyone, anywhere—can make a difference on World Poverty Day.

Donate on our website to commemorate this important day, and read the article here: https://www.utahbusiness.com/thought-leadership/2024/10/16/world-poverty-day-utah/

United Nations Choice Humanitarian Nepal

https://choicehumanitarian.org/gala2024/The CHOICE Humanitarian gala is sold out, but you can still have a chance to bid...
09/30/2024

https://choicehumanitarian.org/gala2024/

The CHOICE Humanitarian gala is sold out, but you can still have a chance to bid on some amazing handicraft items handmade by the people that we support. Your generous donations not only get you amazing one-of-a-kind items but also help these families as they fight to lift themselves out of poverty. WIN-WIN!

The gala is on the 7th so watch the website below for a link to the auction items. Here are some sneak peak pictures of some gala items. If you have questions about any of it private message me. Erika and I brought many of these items back from Ecuador and had the opportunity to meet with the artisans that make them. This week I will share pictures and stories about them.

Today I had the opportunity to visit with Pat and Florence King. They are such an inspirational couple! They have worked...
09/16/2024

Today I had the opportunity to visit with Pat and Florence King. They are such an inspirational couple! They have worked hard all of their lives and are now very wealthy. They work very hard to share their wealth in very positive ways. They have supported over 50 organizations in Utah and are the main supporters of our Choice Humanitarian Guatemala program which is helping to lift thousands of people out of extreme poverty. Congratulations for this well-deserved award!

Collaborative work in Nepal!
08/11/2020

Collaborative work in Nepal!

Farmers of central Nepal now produce enough vegetables and milk to sell within their communities and beyond.

Pablo is giving seeds to a community leader who will share them with her cooperative group. Planting gardens now is a gr...
05/05/2020

Pablo is giving seeds to a community leader who will share them with her cooperative group. Planting gardens now is a great way to protect themselves from the challenges of the economic downturn.

Where are you on this spectrum? Reach out and help others.
05/05/2020

Where are you on this spectrum? Reach out and help others.

11/30/2019

Join us in helping others to lift themselves out of poverty!

Donate to life-changing programs that impact communities around the world.

Our Ecuador team was recognized for their great work!
01/30/2019

Our Ecuador team was recognized for their great work!

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