Our Partnership with Mavuno

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has endured decades of armed conflict and instability, resulting in more than five million deaths. The World Food Program’s 2020 forecast predicted that of the 100 million people in the DRC, 15.6 million would be severely food insecure, making DRC home to the second-largest hunger crisis in the world after Yemen. Mavuno found a direct correlation between high levels of poverty and farmers’ lack of sound, agropastoral knowledge and skills, which was contributing to this hunger crisis.

Farmers were using dated methods that were depleting the soil and causing many to travel long distances or relocate in search of fertile land. These farmers also lacked access to microfinance structures and business skills. A combination of all these factors had destroyed the livelihood of local communities. 

One Day’s Wages partnered with Mavuno, an organization that seeks to empower local agripreneurs to ignite economic development, and in turn, to help to build a peaceful and prosperous Congo. This partnership trained farmers in various villages to become certified agripreneurs. These farmers then returned to their own communities to empower more farmers through a condensed version of the agro-pastoral and entrepreneurial skills training which they themselves had received.