Over 15,600 families in Western Kenya, have organized themselves into community groups and established Community Trading Depots (CTD) for better terms of trade for their labor. With the $10,000 grant from AllPeopleBeHappy foundation, Common Ground for Africa (CGA) aims to establish a Regional Trading Center (RTC). The RTC will provide the reliable transfer of grain commodities purchased from CTD to higher paying urban markets, and act as training centers for ongoing organic farming skills training. CGA’s long term vision is to begin processing, creating value-added packaged products branded under the name Farmers’ Own! (www.villagevolunteers.org/common_ground/common_ground.php)
