GIVING TUESDAY 2024 - 450 bags of Seed Corn
Our goal is 450 bags of seed corn. We’ll keep updating this photo till we reach our goal.
For Giving Tuesday this year, we want to bless 450 families of our Grace Schools students with corn seed for their gardens. Your gift of $15 will purchase one bag of seeds. This is enough seed to plant 1/2 acre of corn. That’s about half what a family needs to plant to have enough food for a whole year.
Along with seed corn, we’ll be training families to make compost to reduce the extremely high costs of chemical fertilizer and increase the viability of the soil on their farms. With only one growing season, it is important for Malawian families to plan ahead to produce food for the entire year.
Thank you so much! We are truly grateful for your generosity!
This corn meal mush made from ground corn and cooked like grits is the staple food of most Malawian families. It is called nsima.
Compost makes all the difference in the world as can be seen in the difference between the corn on the left and the corn in the top right corner of this photo. This field was part of a demonstration plot used to teach sustainable farming methods at the Grace Center.