Christian nonprofit · Kenya, Tanzania, and home
You feed them.
We help you do it.
We help villages in Kenya and Tanzania grow their own food, run their own schools, and have access to clean water, then we hand the work over to the people who live there. Now we’re bringing the same model home to North America.
What we do
Four things a village needs to stand on its own.
Working farms that feed the schools and the families around them.
Wells and water that reach communities where there was none.
Schools the community runs, teaching kids through to university.
A place to gather, worship, and lead the work locally.
Our Model
We don’t create dependency.
We partner, train, and transfer ownership. We arrive alongside a community, build the farm, the school, or the well together, then hand it over to the people who live there. The goal is the day they no longer need us.
Partner
We come alongside a community that asks for help, not one we choose for them.
Build
We build the farm, school, water, or church together and train people to run it.
Hand it over
Ownership transfers to the community. Every program we start is theirs to keep.
Where we work
Real places, real communities.
The model comes home.
The same approach we built in East Africa is now taking root in North America: community gardens, church-backed food banks, and a regenerative-beef donor club. The first US garden is starting in New York, run the same way.
See the work at home →One story · Yogo, Kenya
Soil as hard as a driveway. Now a 12-acre farm.
When we first came to Yogo in 2008, the ground was so depleted it was hard as a driveway. Nothing would grow.
Today Yogo has a working 12-acre farm, run by the community it feeds. It is the clearest picture of what the model does when you stay long enough to hand it over.
Current urgent need
Clean water, where families still walk hours to find it.
In parts of Kenya and Tanzania, women and children still walk hours each day for water that has to be boiled before it is safe. We survey, drill, and build the storage and irrigation that turns one well into a season of food.
This is the work we’re raising funds for right now. Canadian donors can give through The Great Commission Foundation and receive a CRA tax receipt.
Fund a clean-water wellWays to give
More than one way to be part of it.
Donate
A one-time or monthly gift goes to the farms, schools, and clean-water work across the villages.
Donate→Grow the model at home
Back the first US community gardens and food-bank work taking root in New York, built to be owned by the community.
See the work at home→Go on a mission trip
Travel with the team to Kenya or Tanzania and see the work on the ground for yourself.
Explore trips→Who runs this
You Feed Them was founded in 2008 by Roland Poirier and has walked alongside the same communities ever since.
We work through trusted partners on the ground and a network of churches and organizations that have backed this work for years.
Partners
- The Great Commission Foundation
- Ambassador Ministries (AMIC)
- Stittsville Community Bible Church
- Hungry For Life
Tax receipts
Canadian donors can receive a CRA tax receipt through our partner The Great Commission Foundation, a registered Canadian charity. US donors, please contact us about tax receipts.
You feed them. We help you do it.
Every gift goes toward food, water, and schools, then it keeps working long after, because every program is built to be owned by the people it serves.