Resilience

🌾 Beyond food self-sufficiency: towards sustainable resilience

While food self-sufficiency is an essential step in the reconstruction process of vulnerable communities, it is not enough on its own to guarantee true resilience. Indeed, having enough food is vital, but living with dignity requires more: sustainable access to resources, economic stability, and the ability to cope with life's challenges.

It is with this in mind that EBaM is committed to going further. Its ambition is not limited to providing seeds or teaching agricultural techniques. EBaM works to create an enabling environment where each beneficiary can become fully self-reliant, not only in terms of food security, but also economically and socially.

🏘️ Agricultural cooperatives for collective autonomy

To realize this vision, EBaM plans to establish local agricultural cooperatives, true drivers of community transformation. These structures will enable widows, orphans, and other beneficiaries to:

• to pool their efforts and resources,
• to facilitate access to markets to sell their products,
• to benefit from ongoing training in management, transformation and marketing,
• and to strengthen their bargaining power vis-à-vis buyers and institutions.

These cooperatives will be supported by EBaM in their structuring, governance and development, so that they become solid and sustainable economic pillars.

💰 Towards financial independence and a dignified life

The ultimate goal of this initiative is clear: to guarantee lasting financial independence for the beneficiaries. By generating stable income through their agricultural activities, these women and children will be able to:

• to meet their basic needs (food, health, education),
• investing in their future,
• and break definitively with the cycle of dependency and insecurity.

🌟 A future to build together

Thanks to this integrated approach, the widows and orphans supported by EBaM will no longer be mere survivors, but agents of their own development. They will be able to live from the fruits of their labor, with pride and dignity, free from want and looking towards a future full of hope.