Food Security Project By Kapembwa

FOOD SECURITY IMPLEMENTATION AND MANUTRITON REDUCTION PROGRAMME (FSIMRP)

BACKGROUND Food security implementation program started in the year 2005 with a view to walk with the rural poor enhancing their capacity in understanding the situation in which they are found in particular food insecurity. Since inception fsimrp has been working on voluntary with no support from any donor or external funder other than the founder in various places of the nation equipping the rural poor community regardless of their status. •

• FSIMRP: Confidence that food is there! •

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FOOD SECURITY IMPLEMENTATION AND MANUTRITON REDUCTION PROGRAMME (FSIMRP)

• VISION: Rural People get saved and become food self sustained through agriculture programs. •

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MISSION

Partner with rural community, individual brothers, cooperates, Local churches, organizations and projects which can share the same vision with FSIMRP to equip the rural community with developmental knowledge and the gospel. •

OBJECTIVES

• The objectives of FSIMRP are in two categories. There are immediate objectives and long term objectives. FSIMRP taking into Consideration the situation of the rural poor people to adopt the idea of self sustenance, objectives are grouped into two categories. •

IMMEDIATE OBJECTIVES

o Basic Agriculture education. In this component the rural poor farmers are trained in basic sustainable methods of farming. These are new systems of farming such as conservation farming technologies. Within Agriculture education the poor farmers are also trained how to process the produced crops into local nutritious food products, they are as well trained in dietary recipe preparations of local food crops and products preservations. o Basic Health Education: This is basically done to equip the poor farmers with knowledge that through the production of food crops they can actually attain good heath. This helps combat Nutrition problems which later promotes good body immune system. Through this component they are exposed to the HIV/Aids programs, where the main thrust is to show how the affected and infected can support themselves other than waiting for the external support. o FARMING INPUTS AND IMPLEMENTS SUPPORT.

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In this activity FSIMRP supports rural poor farmers across churches and communities with basic fertilizers, seeds and farming implements such as hoes. This is not as spoon feeding (that is not to continue giving them every year) but as a starting point. The emphasis is that within a season some poor farmers who are fast adopting people should be able to start contributing to the community by identifying their brothers in need and help through the formed local committee, to ensure the efforts are being multiplied.

• B. LONG TERM OBJECTIVES • The main activities are that poor farmers should realize that no one feels the deepest pain of their problems than themselves, that for how long should they accept and tolerate the pain. They should realize that their needs required a serious attention by themselves. Now that they are helped with the starting point what should they do? Is it to continue asking for support or multiply the support until achieving self sustenance? FSIMRP is assisting poor farmers to identify farming activities which shall stand a test of time to help them come out of food shortages and at the same time financial crisis through income generation projects. The long term objectives have the initial base which is co-coordinated by the formulated local committee where every one who is supported in the community has to contribute for the multiplication of resources and this continues every season. Each year an income generating project is identified by the community where the contributed resources are invested for multiplication. The Projects are major in Agriculture, as the main thrust is to encourage the rural communities to be productive as the bible encourages. The major role for the staff is to guide, to ensure the community is doing the right thing that helps them come out of the problems. •

• ACTIVITIES: The programme is involved in three major activities, these: •

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TRAINING:

The activity is carried out by the involved and concerned staff with the heart to serve the poor. The program staff identifies the literate rural farmers or church local leaders and equips them with basic knowledge, in new farming systems, good health and how to come out of their problems. The identified local leaders they later serve as leading farmers. Since they are given special trainings, they continue training their fellow community residences, and then staff goes on with the extensive field visits and follow up trainings to the

community to ensure the idea is implemented and adopted correctly. The role of the staff is to ensure the community understands that it is not the staff in pain but the community hence adopts the measures which rescue the community from pain.

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SUPPORT

Farmers are supported with starting inputs and implements. The rural poor farmers though in churches FSIMRP mainly focuses on the identified communities and no actual money are given to an individual or church.

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The program purchases the required fertilizers, seeds and hoes. These are given to the selected beneficial lies from the community with emphasis that after the harvest each beneficially should contribute to the community through the formed committee. This now shall be the resources to be given to the more identified beneficial lies after resource multiplication later implement the sustainability process as every member in the community through the contribution of the first supported group becomes a beneficially. As the vision states the community is taught from the start that this shall not be spoon feeding that they think to continue receiving support but take it as the advantage to start and stand on their on permanently. No actual food is given or money this is also emphasized greatly at the on set of the programme.

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ADVOCACY

In this item the program lobbies the government local community and other organizations to discourage spoon feeding, that is giving out handouts to poor farmers since that does not promote independence but encourages dependence among the poor farmers. This is also done through awareness trainings among the beneficiaries that they understand that their problems or needs can not be met through handouts. The main partner in this item is the church who we work together, in promoting self sustenance among the poor regardless of their conditions.

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• TARGET GROUPS The target groups are in two categories as follows. •

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LESS PREVALEDGE

In this group our main focus is not on every less privileged but only those with the heart to do something. Those who are deeply convicted that they can farm and are already growing crops but they feel they are doing it in the wrong way and do not have enough resource to go forward probably they need skills and also a starting up empowerment on inputs. These can even practically be identified that they are promoters of dependence; they only lack support to start. •

CHRONICALLY ILL PATIENTS

• Regardless of the cause they qualify to be supported with basic skills in new farming technologies, health education and inputs. The people living with HIV/Aids are not an exceptional but for as long as they are identified physical to do farming they are selected and this is done through physical interviews. •

IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY

• This is not a theoretical programme but a visible and practical program which aims at involving the community very much as they are the victims of the advocated problems. • Firstly the beneficiaries are selected with the help of the church leaders and the local leaders. This is done across denominations and communities. The program in any area of focus starts small by selecting few beneficiaries with the minimum number of ten (10). • The selection is done by the staff through the help of the church community in the rural areas. The same staff develops leaders in the community who later helps in trainings and the staff now concentrates on follow ups to ensure correct trainings are followed

and monitor the development and the rate of adoption of the Technologies. • •

THE PROGRAMME STRUCTURE

The structure is composed of the professional staff committee the local community selected committee and the selected leading farmers who are local trained trainers.

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PROFESSIONAL STAFF COMMITTEE Trustees 1. Dr Sumani : He is a holder of a Doctorate degree in entomology. He is an experienced senior staff under the ministry of agriculture and able to give the guide on the running of the project. He has coordinated various projects at national level. 2. Mr. Kangwa : He is a holder of a masters degree in economics. He is very experienced in coordinating various projects at national level. He is a senior staff under the office of the vice president department of the disaster management and mitigation unit. Executive director Pastor Kapembwa: He is a holder of masters Degree in agriculture. He is experienced in rural Community development programs with a desire To walk with the rural poor.

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LOCAL COMMITTEE • Chairman • Secretary • Treasurer

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LEADING FARMERS • Trainer • Assistant Trainer

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REMARKS

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The rural community and their local churches are the owners of the program and are highly recognized in the implementation of the program.

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I wish the nation and the people, sharing the same heart a blessing as they promote the vision in various ways of support. •

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CONTACTS

FSIMRP • BOX 32008 • LUSAKA • CELL: 0977 366 051 Email: [email protected] • Contact person • Pastor CHRISTOPHER P KAPEMBWA. • Founder and vision carrier of FSIMRP