IRIBA Foundation

Farmers on Lake Cyohoha.

Bugesera District, on the Burundi border

Around Lake Cyohoha, in Bugesera District, we work with farmers. What we provide is storage. A harvest that can be kept does not have to be sold the day it is brought in.

Storage on the lake

Storage facilities for farmers on the shore of Lake Cyohoha, so that what they grow can be held until it is sold on their terms.

Storage on Lake Cyohoha, Bugesera District · undated

Cows, pigs, and the children

The farmers we work with are women. They keep cows and pigs alongside their fields.

Livestock give a family an income that does not depend on a single harvest, and that income is what keeps children fed and in school. The farm and the school are one system, from the lake shore to the child's plate.

Women standing among seedlings in a fenced garden plot
Women farmers in the vegetable garden, Bugesera District · undated
A brown and white cow looking out through the wooden rails of a shed
A cow in the farmers' shed, Bugesera District · undated
Women seated in a circle on benches under trees, one reading from a paper
Women farmers' group meeting, Bugesera District · undated

What we can say, and what we cannot yet

This page will carry the programme's numbers when the foundation has verified them. Until then it carries none.

TKTK: number of farmers reached
TKTK: what is stored, and the capacity
TKTK: since when
TKTK: funder of the storage
TKTK: who manages the storage (cooperative, committee)

If you represent an institution

A ministry, a federation, an embassy, a fund: the five-year plan and the formal ask are on the Partner page, with the logframe and the registration.

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If you are one person

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