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The Leaf Foundation

The Leaf Foundation’s mission is to empower local farmers all over the world through allocating the right resources, educating them and offering micro-financing. Every country has different challenges and opportunities. Therefore, their approaches vary across the globe. The Leaf Foundation works towards different solutions tailored to the local farmers’ needs.

Project Ethiopia

- Project Ethiopia is all about supporting Ethiopian smallholder farmers by providing micro-financing for e-trikes. On this project the Leaf Foundation will be working together with Enpov that already established numerous connections in Ethiopia. During their time in Ethiopia they found that the biggest challenge small farmers are facing is the transportation to the markets. Farmers have to walk up to 4 hours to a marketplace to sell their crops and women have to walk up to 7km to a milling station which makes selling their products a lot harder. Together with Enpov they would like to change this by increasing mobility for smallholder farmers through providing them with an electric bike.

Project Ghana

- Project Ghana was created because the Leaf Foundation found multiple farmes that wanted to expand their production capacity to earn more money but couldn't find the capital to start. The Leaf Foundation helped local farmers by giving them capital, which they have to pay back over time, and to connect them with supplier and customers to better get their products to the market.