Cents for Seeds
Cents for Seeds is changing the lives of families in Uganda by empowering women and enabling them to provide for their families.
For a small $30 donation, a woman is provided with a 30kg loan of seeds such as beans or sesame, as well as a hand held gardening tool, educational workshops, and access to savings groups.
Why does it work?
Women in Uganda are the caretakers for their families. Therefore, when you invest in women you are investing in their larger communities. Cents for Seeds offers women the opportunity to earn an income, income which then turns into food, education, and health care.
Why does it work?
Following biannual harvests, the women return the seeds for incoming groups of Cents for Seeds women. This means that the seed loan cycle is self-generating and sustainable and goes on to reach more communities.
Each woman’s harvest generates 150kg of seeds on average, enabling them to keep a minimum of 120kg each for ongoing food security and economic profitability even after they return their principal seed loan, plus interest.
The Cents for Seeds cycle ensures our program is sustainable and that our impact is growing.
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Act now to become part of the empowering Cents for Seeds cycle and help women in Uganda lift up themselves, their children, and their communities.
Some highlights of our impact so far
19,000
women participating in Cents for Seeds
2,551
women graduated and farming independently in 3 sub-counties
57
parishes in 3 districts of northern Uganda
We have so much to celebrate.
“We’ve grown together, as a community. And most importantly, we’ve grown in love.”
Village Savings & Loan Association
Part of the Cents for Seeds program is that women are automatically enrolled in a Village Savings and Loan Association (VSLA). VSLAs are community-based financial institutions that provide savings, credit, and insurance services to its members.
VSLAs help members pool their savings into a fund from which they can borrow in order to accumulate wealth collectively, provide emergency assistance when needed, strengthen community bonds and foster a sense of solidarity, empower women with financial inclusion, teach financial literacy, and enable further Income Generating Activities.
VSLAs have proven to be effective, having an incredibly positive impact on the communities involved.
Cents for Seeds: Two different perspectives
The project is reducing my everyday expenses like food and is covering the costs of the rest, like my children’s medical bills. I only request that you continue to run the program so that we can continue to fight our challenges.
- Rose Alunga, Barr village
I love supporting Cents for Seeds. I love to know that the $30 a month that I donate is giving a woman and her family a hand up, not a hand out, and will go on to benefit many others thanks to her hard work. I love the monthly stories that I get via email. I feel like I am making a real difference.
- Natalie Lennon, Donor
