"Developing countries are bearing the brunt of climate change now. It's not something that might happen in 10, 20, 30 years time," Helen Clark, the administrator of the U.N. Development Program told the Associated Press yesterday.
This article describes how developing countries will need tens of billions of dollars each year to cope with the effects of climate change. As the world's leaders prepare to meet in Copenhagen later this week, we hope they are hearing this message.
That climate change is affecting the developing world is a fact our farmers in Kenya know only too well. Rainfall has become scarcer and scarcer in this part of the world, which already needs every drop. Over the last ten years rain has become less and less reliable, pushing our farmers deeper into poverty. The Nyeri area where our farmers operate only had 58 percent of its usual rainfall last year, according to the Kenyan Meteorological Department. Coffee needs a lot of water to grow, and unreliable rainfall prevents these farmers from achieving sustainability.
As part of our fundraising efforts to help impoverished Kenyan farmers, Rural Development Connections is offering charitable gifts this holiday season, that will buy tools and items that will help make them more efficient farmers.
Water as always is key to their success as farmers, and our charitable gifts include drip irrigation - which at $75 for a one-acre farm is far cheaper than $1,000 an acre for a conventional system - and a family's share of a community well, which will provide them with clean drinking water as well as water to irrigate their farm with.
For more information and to purchase an Outside the Box Gift from Rural Development Connection visit www.ruraldevelopmentconnections.org
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