{"id":3705,"date":"2016-07-07T15:52:32","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T14:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/us\/?p=3705"},"modified":"2016-12-21T15:21:15","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T15:21:15","slug":"hivfarmsupport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/us\/hivfarmsupport\/","title":{"rendered":"Farm support for Kenya&#8217;s HIV households"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Low energy, illness, vulnerability to disease and social stigma are amongst the many challenges endured by rural households living with HIV\/AIDS, in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>One agricultural project being implemented by Self Help Africa to address this distinct challenge has delivered major benefits to more than 1,500 Kenyan households, since it was first launched in Nakuru County over four years ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/07\/juliagitari2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4145\" src=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/07\/juliagitari2-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"juliagitari2\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>47 year old Julia Gitari is one householder who has benefitted from the project. The mother of a young family, Julia says that she is now growing a wide variety of food and income generating produce on her farm, where she has also started rearing chickens, sheep and a small number of local breed cows.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside 150 households in her community, Julia was given a polytunnel greenhouse, drip-irrigation units, training and other support when she began receiving support, in 2013. The equipment reduces the amount of time and labour she has to spend both weeding and irrigating her crops.<\/p>\n<p>She says that her family\u2019s diet has improved beyond all measure, and she now grows crops such as onion, potato, tomato, cassava, banana and other fruit alongside her maize (corn). The sale of fruit and vegetables is enabling her to earn \u20ac350 a year ($KE35,000) from her land.<\/p>\n<p>Julia says that she has lifted her self out of poverty as a result of the backing she has received, and explains that while her general health, as a person with HIV\/AIDS has improved, what has also improved is the attitude of others towards her family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel proud that I can now afford to send my children to school, and people in the community respect this too,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople living with HIV\/AIDS are now more accepted in the village. Although we might not be able to do the same amount of farm-work as others, the fact that we are farming our own land and supporting our own families has been empowering,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farm support is being provided to thousands of households in Kenya, living with HIV<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/us\/hivfarmsupport\/\"> Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[681,637],"tags":[728,68,624,72,70,729],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v22.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Farm support for Kenya&#039;s HIV households - Self Help Africa USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Self Help Africa has received a top award in Ethiopia.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/us\/hivfarmsupport\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Farm support for Kenya&#039;s HIV households\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Self Help Africa has received a top award in Ethiopia.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/us\/hivfarmsupport\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Self Help Africa USA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SelfHelpAfrica\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-07-07T14:52:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-12-21T15:21:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/07\/JuliaGitari1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"3861\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"2211\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Self Help Africa\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Self Help Africa\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/us\/hivfarmsupport\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/us\/hivfarmsupport\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Self Help Africa\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/us\/#\/schema\/person\/ef27df5dc9e961797418d7a8bf315404\"},\"headline\":\"Farm support for Kenya&#8217;s HIV households\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-07-07T14:52:32+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-12-21T15:21:15+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/us\/hivfarmsupport\/\"},\"wordCount\":326,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/us\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/us\/hivfarmsupport\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/07\/JuliaGitari1-scaled.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"agricultural cooperative\",\"Agriculture\",\"award\",\"Ethiopia\",\"Farming\",\"prize\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Kenya\",\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/us\/hivfarmsupport\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/us\/hivfarmsupport\/\",\"name\":\"Farm support for Kenya's HIV households - 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