JS Acceleration Fund
Promote socially cohesive and economically resilient communities in Sub-Saharan Africa
Promote socially cohesive and economically resilient communities in Africa
The JS Acceleration Fund raises donations for the John Schrooten Foundation. The non-profit goal of the Foundation is to increase the capability to act independently. The Foundation facilitates and promotes good practices around healthy nutrition, sustainable agriculture and related economic activities and entrepreneurship. The goal is more socially cohesive and economically resilient communities. The supported enterprises or projects adhere to a triple P bottom line (people, planet, profit). The Foundation makes sure an enduring impact is made even when support is gradually diminished and eventually stopped.
Our flagship project centers around the reintroduction of the versatile Moringa tree in the Karatu district in rural Northern Tanzania. There we work with schools, women and farmers to improve their lives by providing training and hands-on assistance. This results in better nutrition and farming practices as well as generate income through products derived from Moringa (powder, oil, soap, ...).
Key SDGs:
NUTRITION AND HEALTH (Zero hunger, Good Health) • insight into healthy food • knowledge of, and access to a crop rich in nutrients (Moringa) • general health improvement for children by teaching healthy eating habits
MICRO ENTERPRISE (No poverty) • improved agricultural practices • access to tools and techniques to process products and to store longer • learn how processing products offers added value • setting up micro businesses in family context
WATER MANAGEMENT (Clean water and sanitation, Climate Action) • key condition for meaningful agriculture • combat erosion and drought • access to (clean) water (surface and well)
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Official fundraiser
Water and a food forest for each of Qurus schools
Over the last five years, our Foundation planted 50.000 Moringa trees in the Endamarariek ward, Karatu district, Northern Tanzania. The trees were planted near schools, by women's groups or by individual farmers, supplementing the one-sided diet, slowing down heavy rain and providing for additional income through Moringa-derived products. Next, we will expand in the adjacent Qurus ward and provide vegetables and fruits through food forests to the 8.000 primary and secondary school students of the ward (around 15.000 people, 2012 census). The students are distributed over 19 schools, 13 of those have no or limited (during night time or only once a week) access to water. This fundraiser will address this water scarcity, provide water management and enable food forest start-up at each school. Practically, your donation will be used to bootstrap three prototype schools in 2023. For each school, we will: install gutters, piping and a 3000 gallon tank for water storage for both rain and well water plant several hundreds of Moringa trees establish responsible food forest teams (teachers and students) train the teams on food forest and associated farming practices integrate Moringa into the one-sided maize/beans-based school meal and educate children on healthy eating habits, Moringa and its benefits
- Raised
- $40
- Goal
- $10,000
1 supporter
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