Kuru-ko Wate Self-Help: Kuru-ko Wate Commercial Vegetables Capacity Building Project
United States African Development Foundation awarded a grant of USD 99,480 to Kuru-ko Wate Self-Help for work in South Sudan, dated 30 September 2017.
Overview
Sector: Irrigated agriculture (jute, kale, cabbage, tomato, okra, pepper, amaranthus, pumpkin, watermelon, pig weed) , Town/City: Juba Nabari, South Sudan, Summary: The purpose of this grant is to expand Kuru-ko Wate Self Help's operations as a sustainable farming cooperative and ensure food security and increased income for its members. KKWSH will purchase vegetables from members and process them for resale in commercial markets. Activities will include laying a drip irrigation network to ensure a steady supply of water, procuring farming equipment and inputs as well as two rickshaws for transporting vegetables. Funds will also be used to sponsor financial management, monitoring and evaluation, business management and agronomy training in order to strengthen the capacity of the group.
Source: United States African Development Foundation, IATI activity data via the IATI Bulk Data Service, published under Creative Commons CCZero (cc-zero, as registered on the IATI Registry) (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Read from https://bulk-data.iatistandard.org/usadf/usadf-southsudan.xml. Reshaped by All Business Africa into this record; amounts and currency are as the funder states them.