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From aid dependency to a 200-acre cooperative farm

Farming the Return

After 20 years in camps, a generation of Acholi adults had forgotten how to farm. Acholi Resilience's sustainable agriculture program relearns those skills at scale — a 200-acre communal farm, a tractor, planting kits for individual families, and market co-ops.

Farming the Return

The 200-acre farm

Owned and operated by the community, it provides jobs for the vulnerable and food for the Sanctuary. The main barrier now is a culvert to cross the river that surrounds it — foot traffic works, but the tractor can't cross.

Household kits

$60 kits — seeds, hand tools, and a season of training — turn a family from aid-recipient to food-producer inside a single planting season.

Gallery

First harvest brought to the co-op weigh-station.
First harvest brought to the co-op weigh-station.
The 200-acre farm — the long-term answer to aid dependency.
The 200-acre farm — the long-term answer to aid dependency.
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