One Acre Fund
Status: Phase I Complete, Phase II Complete
Budget: $175,000 (Phases I & II)
Size: (6) Buildings, 8000 sf
Type: Office, Dorms, Educational Space
Project Managers: Dave Betts and Connor Dinnison
Description:
Located in Bungoma, Kenya, One Acre Fund was created to empower East African families so they can overcome poverty and hunger. One Acre Fund has successfully tripled their clients agricultural yield through agricultural education, providing material capital, creating harvest markets, and insuring crops. The One Acre Fund office complex will provide additional office and educational space as well as allow One Acre Fund to centrally locate their in country operations.
One Acre Fund currently has a clientele of around 12,000 Kenyans, mostly women, and plans to increase that number to around 33,000 in the next two years. One Acre Fund has already procured $100,000 for the project, enough to cover the first phase. Construction for Change has partnered with One Acre Fund to provide the remaining fund raising, project design, and construction management.
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