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Christmas Campaign: Farmer to farmer

Farmers Weekly has teamed up with Farming Help and Send a Cow to launch its groundbreaking "Farmer to Farmer" Christmas charity campaign.

Farming Help supports rural families in the UK, while Send a Cow works with some of the poorest farming families in Africa, meaning you can choose whether your money goes to good causes at home or abroad.

Latest campaign news

Farmer to farmer campaign

Farmers Weekly has teamed up with four leading agricultural charities to launch its Farmer to Farmer Christmas charity campaign. Readers will be invited to make donation to the campaign, choosing whether their money goes to causes at home or abroad.

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RABI charity builds on 150 years of helping farmers

What’s your biggest worry? Debt? Animal disease? Housing? Bad health? Whatever the problem, you can guarantee you’re not the first farmer to lose sleep over it. We’ve identified the main problems reported to Farming Help charities in 2010 and outlined some of the help available.

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Don't lose sleep, find help

What’s your biggest worry? Debt? Animal disease? Housing? Bad health? Whatever the problem, you can guarantee you’re not the first farmer to lose sleep over it. We’ve identified the main problems reported to Farming Help charities in 2010 and outlined some of the help available.

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A LIFELINE IN RURAL AFRICA

In Uganda it's not unheard of for children as young as 11 to head their own farming households. Rachel Jones joined Send a Cow on a trip to the southern district of Rakai, to see how the charity is improving the prospects of some very young farmers

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How Farming Help really helps

When farmers are facing problems, either in their personal or business lives, it is often pride that will stop them asking for help. But in the words of one Farming Help volunteer, "pride won't get you fed".

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Send a Cow case study

Agnes Mulindwa and her husband look after 13 children, including their own biological children, orphans and grandchildren. Before being introduced to Send a Cow in 1996 their smallholding had almost no meaningful income.

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YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED

Deputy Farmlife editor Rachel Jones went on a trip to Africa armed with dozens of questions from Farmers Weekly readers and FWi users. With the help of Send a Cow and Ugandan farmers she found the answers – from GM crops and irrigation, to local markets and government aid.

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How to donate

If you would like to give to Farming Help, you can do it in two ways:

  • Send a cheque made payable to Farming Help to: The Farmers Weekly Christmas Campaign, c/o RABI, Shaw House, 27 West Way, Oxford, OX2 0QH or
  • Visit the Just Giving website.

Money sent to Farming Help will be split equally between the three charities involved.

 

 

If you would like to give to Send a Cow, you can do it in three ways:

  • Send a cheque made payable to Send a Cow to: The Farmers Weekly Christmas Campaign, The Old Estate Yard, Newton St Loe, Bath BA2 9BR or
  • Visit the Send a Cow website or
  • Telephone on 01225 874 222 (lines manned between 9am and 5pm)

RABI

RABI provides financial and practical help to members of the farming community facing hardship. It supports elderly people and those of any age who are disabled, with regular grants or one-off payments for special items that they can’t afford themselves. Working farming families who are facing financial difficulties because of illness, bereavement or another crisis may receive short-term help with their domestic expenses.

Farm Crisis Network

FCN is a UK network of volunteers from the farming community and rural churches, providing a national helpline and visiting service to farming people and families facing difficulties. They provide pastoral and practical support, helping people to find a positive way forward through problems. FCN works closely with local support groups providing a similar service.

ARC-Addington Fund

The ARC-Addington Fund runs a Rural Housing Scheme for those leaving a non-viable rural business, to allow people to exit their business with dignity and remain living in their community. Most of its work is with farming families - in particular tenant farmers who leave farming and therefore lose their home. The Fund may also provide financial help towards business costs.

Send a Cow

Send a Cow helps the poorest African farmers grow enough food to feed their families, sell their produce and develop small businesses that last. Originally set up by a group of innovative UK dairy farmers, its practical and hands-on approach has seen it grow into a thriving international development charity with the power to influence the policies of African governments.


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