It all started with a one-hour flight from Zanzibar to Dar Es Salaam in a Cessna 208 plane. The winds coming from the coast during the rainy season really has an effect on the stability of the plane. Anyway, after landing safely in Dar Es Salaam a five hour drive awaited us to get to Morogoro. It is in Morogoro that lies real the beginning of this story at one of the warehouses belonging to One Acre Fund.
Trucks used to transport the seeds to the selling points.
One acre fund is an organization that aims to help farmers in sub-Saharan countries by providing them with the tools and knowledge necessary to grow crops in a more efficient way. By growing more efficient crops with proper training, the farmers, would sell a much bigger quantity of produce. This should help the farmer’s in investing money in education for their children and their everyday life emergencies and subsequently beneficiating the community.
Back to the warehouse in Morogoro, this is where One Acre Fund stores some of their hybrid seeds that they will sell to the farmers. Amongst all those seeds some are meant for the Maasai villages. This trip to the warehouse consisted of checking the seeds for any contamination or bugs that could’ve chewed their way into the bags of seeds. In a second time loading the trucks with bags of seeds in order to get them at the villages the next day early in the morning. Loading the trucks is not an easy task. Workers dressed in blue are in charge of lifting heavy bags of seeds and loading them in trucks without mixing the orders. All the necessary precautions are taken in order to keep the seeds safe before getting them to the selling points in the villages.
To see how One Acre Fund uses the seeds to work and help Maasai villages with new agriculture methods please go to "One acre at a time".
