New year 2011, New developments for KDFA to move on towards achieving the set goals and strengthen fundraising especially explore the possibilities to raise funds with –in for sustainability. It’s now 3 months on the road to broaden fundraising. A fundraising needs assessment exercise recently concluded revealed a lot of things, potential, possibilities and areas for further emphasis which is expected to contribute lots towards KDFA growth. The recommendations therein have now been interpreted into workable projects and now on the wheels steering towards a conceptualised direction, APPEAL to donors, funders, development workers to support the association achieve the dream as the mission states “To improve productivity of small scale farmer members through building marketing and finance linkages awareness on cross cutting issues and advocating for good governance and land ownership”.Beginning December 2010 KDFA with support from Action Aid international –Zambia sourced for an Inspirator- Fundraiser to work with the association and implement the among others sustainability mechanisms, expand the funding base, reach out to other funding agencies
A fundraising strategy is underway that clearly maps out clear workable with-in the associations reach ideas to be implemented this will need both external assistance and internal efforts to be realized. Our humble appeal to donor, development agencies that have a heart for a rural farmer to work with us finance one or two of the projects. Reach us on email kawambwafarmersdfa@yahoo.com, kdfa2011@gamil.com .
