Check "PROJECTS" for more information about activities to achieve our goals in 2022.

Promote reconciliation
by

• ​Including the most vulnerable people in our workforce.
• Inviting Twa and other vulnerable people to cultivate on FRED’S FARM land. 
• Having an open door policy on FRED’S FARM, functioning as a meeting place for all in the community.    

Empower to be self-sufficient
by

• Giving job opportunities to as many as possible. 
• Arranging training programmes related to farming.
• Providing land to grow food for those with little or no land. 
• Providing seeds and seedlings.
• Supporting a microsavings programme in the nearby Twa village.​
• Providing food from the farm for the most needy; milk and eggs. 

Vincent, Philip, Emmanuel and Eugene receive their diploma from Jacques after finishing a one year training programme. 

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Increase number of children attending school
by

• Empowering parents (see above).
• Providing financial support for 12 children from the Twa village to attend school.
• Supporting microsavings at the Twa village; provide new start capital and re-establish the microsavings account when the situation in Rwanda permits this. 
• Identifying "jiggers" and providing treatment for Twa children. 
• Supporting the local school in their effort to provide one nutritious meal a day: providing moringa seeds and seedlings to plant in the school garden.  ​
• Evaluate and follow up the "solar lamp library", reading lamps. 
• Continue internship programme at the farm for fourth form pupils. 

School children playing with footballs donated by Ranheim football club and Sport 1, Melhus. 

Promote more sustainable farming
by

• Using only modern organic farming principles on FRED'S FARM.
• Implementing a dairy and local goat "breeding programme".
• Offering farmer training in modern organic principles, e.g. more efficient composting.   
• Promote agroforestry. 
• Propagating seedlings and providing a selection of nutritious plants to farmers who participate in training. 
• Establishing a "demonstration plot" on FRED'S FARM to show what and how plants can be grown on a small farm holding.