City Farmers Around the Globe

At City Farmers, it’s our hope to inspire gardeners worldwide. Here are a few incredible projects we’ve been fortunate enough participate in!

Meet Philip Kabiru, Emmanuel Mabibo, Bonny Mark Alinga, and Dr. Jean Aime Musabyemungu - are recent recipients of vegetable seeds and a bee hive.

Learn more about their crucial, opportunity-giving work!

GTC - Rwanda

Dr. Jean Aime Musabyemungu recently graduated from the University of Rwanda Medical School and is currently completing his medical internship at a hospital in eastern Rwanda. He is an orphan from the 1994 Genocide of the Tutsi who supported his education through selling potatoes and sugar cane, and running a small poultry business, among other entrepreneurial endeavors.

Always involved in improving the well-being of his poor, rural community in western Rwanda, he has started projects to help train vulnerable children and unwed teenage mothers to become self-reliant as well as to combat COVID-19. He plans on using seeds sent from City Farmers to establish school and community gardens. He is the adopted son of one of our long-time City Farmer customers, Kathy Parker.

Kiini Sustainable Initiative

Philip Kabiru is working towards his degree in Community Development from the Cooperative University of Kenya.  He is founder of the Kiini Sustainable Initiative, which is a local NGO that works to serve underprivileged and marginalized people in the community.  His NGO supports numerous community projects.  A few of these are: teaching climate smart agriculture; establishing school farms and kitchen gardens; establishing bee hives and the harvesting and selling honey; distributing reusable sanitary pads to allow girls to attend and stay in school; and construction of water harvesting and storage units as well as sanitary compost toilets.

Heart and Hope for the Poor education project

Emmanuel Mabibo works as a health researcher in Mombasa, Kenya. However, he is a civic leader in his community, including being the founder of the Heart and Hope for the Poor education project.  He raises vegetables in his family’s compound (which he built) and sells milk from his two cows to help pay the school fees for several poor, but very bright, local secondary school children.  He is seen here in his garden with neighbors helping to fix the pump for his well, which not only provides water for his garden, but drinking water for the community. 

Uganda’s Nissi High School

Bonny Mark Alinga is a small businessman, Rotary Club President, and community activist in Uganda.  He founded the Nissi College School, a high school in rural northern Uganda, hit hard from devastating rebel wars over the last two decades.   Many of his students are orphans from this conflict. Our seeds and onion sets were planted in the newly established school garden. As his life goals include to “offer civic services, empower communities, and change lives”, with the current COVID-19 pandemic and locust plague, he is currently involved in health education and emergency relief drives in his community.  

A WorldWide Destination

One of our biggest joys is folks who make us a stop when they’re traveling. Deepak Chandorkar of India went out of his way to not only visit our nursery, but also pickup some swag to share back at his home, 8,000 miles away! Our bumper sticker even made it to South America!