Description
Families rely on staple grains like maize and beans for daily nourishment and income in Latin America and the Caribbean. Your gift of essential seeds, tools, and inputs helps them grow food for their tables and surplus to support their livelihoods.
Feeding Families
The Basic Grains Bundle helps families access staple crops like maize and beans, which are central to daily nourishment and livelihoods across Latin America and the Caribbean. In many rural communities, these grains provide both a reliable source of energy and a foundation for household stability. By supplying essential seeds, tools, and agricultural inputs, your gift helps families grow food for their own tables while creating opportunities for surplus harvests that can generate income.
Inside the Bundle
Help families build a more secure and self-sufficient future. Your gift supports long-term food security, improved nutrition, and greater resilience for those working to overcome poverty.
A Basic Grains Bundle includes:
- 60 pounds of maize seeds
- 25 pounds of bean seeds
- Fertilizer, insecticide, herbicide, and fungicide
- Essential farming tools, including a machete and hoe
- A backpack sprayer
- Buckets or barrels for safe seed storage
Lasting Impact for Families
Your gift strengthens long-term food security, improves nutrition, and builds resilience for families. By providing the seeds, tools, and agricultural inputs they need, the Basic Grains Bundle supports dependable harvests for their tables and creates opportunities to earn income from surplus crops. These resources go beyond meeting today’s needs, helping families gain stability, grow in self-sufficiency, and work toward a more secure future rooted in their own land and labor.
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Catalog Notice
Gifts to Food For The Poor help advance our mission to alleviate hunger, poverty, and suffering. Donations are understood to be allocated flexibly, allowing us to address the most urgent needs and sustain our operations. This flexibility enables us to respond quickly in times of crisis and maintain long-term support where it’s needed most. We are committed to being responsible stewards of your generosity, ensuring every gift has a meaningful impact on those we serve.
Why Support our new Pilot Initiative
A Mercado Global handbag isn’t just an accessory—it’s a meaningful gift that represents hope and resilience. When you shop on our website you're making the statement that poverty isn't inevitable.
Every purchase helps create a stable economic environment within impoverished communities, which can lead to food security and reduce dependency on aid. It’s an investment in breaking the cycle of poverty through fair trade practices that uplift entire communities.
Each handbag is a unique piece of art, handcrafted by skilled artisans who draw on traditional techniques passed down through generations. This supports cultural preservation while giving artisans a source of pride and financial independence.
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Handbags are ethically crafted, prioritizing fair labor practices and sustainable production. With each purchase, you’re helping prove that we can tackle poverty through sustainable community development.
Buying a Mercado Global handbag provides sustainable income for artisans in marginalized communities, directly helping them support their families. By working part-time, artisans can make up to $8 a day, which is enough to lift themselves out of poverty over the course of a few months of engagement.
By shopping with us, you’re supporting a test initiative designed to demonstrate that we can build a sustainable, closed-loop system between our micro-enterprise programs and an online marketplace. If the test is sucessful we'll be able to scale up our programs.
