The Mission Project in Africa
Purpose: To equip locals in needed Communities to produce more food to avert hunger, poverty, and suffering during their dry season.
Method: To provide one John Deer farming tractor to the Chief Elders to use to expand their farmlands, during the farming season so as to plant and harvest more crops to sustain the people of local communities during their farming dry season.
Existing Problem: The Upper West Regions of Africa have experienced severe drought since the early 1970′s. The Regions have six months of rainfall and six months of intense dry season with temperatures in the 100′s. Food crops are mostly cultivated during the rainy seasons. These crops include millet, peanuts, rice, yam, corn, assorted beans and spices.
Unfortunately, the people in the Upper West Regions are poor and do not have modern resources for farming i.e. tractors, irrigation, storage facilities and electricity supply. They mostly use hoes to farm their Savannah grassland to plant and harvest crops.
The result is that food production is very low and because of a growing population, food becomes scarce during the dry season thus causing hunger, poverty, suffering, sickness, and even death. It is this situation that The Way Empowerment Missions International Inc. wants to step in and help empower the locals in the Upper West Regions to end this cycle of hunger, suffering, and death.
Approach:
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Meet the Chief and Elders of needed communities.
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Share our plan to donate one “John Deer Tractor” to them to use during farming season to cultivate large areas of farming land for planting and harvesting of crops.
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Chiefs and Elders will secure an experienced driver and assign the duties of using the tractor to farm family lands for the planting of crops during the rainy season. The Chief and Elders will be responsible for the driver’s pay.
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The Chief and Elders should set a minimum fee to be paid by each family that rents the tractor for farming their lands.
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The income from fees will be used to repair and maintain the tractor and driver.
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The Chief and Elders would set up a five-member Committee to be in-charge of the use of the tractor by setting guidelines for use, repair, maintenance, and receiving fees for use of tractor and accounting to Chief/Elders every month.
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The Chief and Elders must form a marketing committee to sell all over- produced food items to raise money for the future construction of silos to keep dry foods such as beans, corn, millet, and rice for sale during the dry season at reasonable prices to the locals in need of food.
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The Chief and Elders must submit a yearly report to The Way: EMI outlining how the tractor was used, total income generated, expenses made and balance of money in the Bank.
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This means Chiefs/Elders must open a Bank Account in the name of their local business or organization.
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