Operation Feed Your Family – Local. Self-determined. Sustainable.

The Creed

We strive to nourish our community by ensuring that each family can independently provide for its members (children and grandchildren).

Approach

We are expanding the "Feed Your Family Movement" operation to every community where we find a competent representative who is available to take responsibility for identifying the initial beneficiaries, who may be existing farmers or those willing to start farming.

Products in Focus

The initial content focus is on the cultivation of cassava, sweet potatoes, and vegetables, as well as raising chickens for the self-sufficiency of the participating families.

Concept

Operation Feed Your Family does not support individuals in isolation but emphasises the formation of teams of five farmers. These farmers commit to being active together—even if their fields are geographically separate.

The team concept is central: Participants act based on shared values such as trust, respect, and mutual support. They aim to work like an extended family spanning three generations. This model fosters both vertical mentoring between generations and horizontal collaboration among peers.

Approach

We work with local farmers to form a team of five people who either grow cassava, yams, or raise chickens. After a screening process, each team member receives targeted support:

• In plant cultivation we provide cuttings for 400 mounds of cassava or yams each, allowing the entire team to plant 2,000 mounds together.
  
  

• Or for poultry farming: about 40 day-old chicks per person and one month’s worth of feed.
  
  

Peeling cassava

Cost Coverage by OFYF

In some communities, the average costs are:

• 20 to 30 US dollars to support a farmer in producing 400 mounds of cassava

• 30 to 40 US dollars to enable the planting of 400 mounds of yams

For poultry farming, a farmer needs:

• 40 US dollars for acquiring 40 chickens

• additionally 30 US dollars for one month's worth of feed
  

Tasks of the Beneficiaries

The beneficiaries secure their land, clear the land, while we pay for the mounds and the person takes care of their farm until harvest. In the case of chickens, the farmer prepares the site while we provide resources for the chickens and one month’s worth of feed.

Compensation or Repayment

During the harvest, he/she gives us 10% of the farm's yield as a donation or tithe to maintain the program (40 mounds only for cassava and sweet potatoes and 25% of the chickens), while he/she retains the remaining 360 mounds or 75% of the chickens for themselves and their family’s sustenance.

Summary of Core Principles

1. Summary of key points:

2. The beneficiaries must be a team of five people.

3. They agree to support each other as guarantors.

4. Each person takes responsibility for the farm while we only provide resources for the production of cassava/yams mounds or for purchasing chickens and one month’s worth of feed.

5. The beneficiaries take comprehensive care of the farm but offer an agreed percentage of the operation only during harvest as a tithe or donation for sustainability.

6. The agricultural idea is oriented towards shared values, interdependence, and mutual prosperity of the farmers, as it promotes mentoring and cooperative farming.
   
   

   
   

Conclusion

Operation Feed Your Family is more than an agricultural project—it is a social model for strengthening families, communities, and local food sovereignty. Through teamwork, personal responsibility, and targeted support, a movement grows that can strengthen entire regions in the long term.

For queries or support of the project, our team is gladly available.