The Center for Agriculture in Bobo, Burkina Faso is one of the primary projects at Grain of Hope. Many of our group trips spend time working at and meeting the people who run the Center. With 30 acres of land, our vision is to provide sustainable food production, employment, and training for Burkina’s people. […]
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Donate a Grain Grinder
When you give towards a grain grinder, you are helping to support one of our key areas of work – providing efficient, sustainable food solutions to people in need in Burkina Faso. The grain grinder is not only used to help produce better flour from the corn, it is also a great time saver. Women […]
Walking Plows
One of our keystone projects at Grain of Hope is a simple farming tool – the plow. We give village farms plows that they can hook up to cows or donkeys. Most farmers will work the ground with their hands. By giving them a plow they can increase their production, which means there will be […]
The Chicken Hatchery
This Christmas would you consider spending less on Christmas presents, and instead invest in sustainable food solutions in Burkina Faso? We have started the fundraising phase of our chicken hatchery project for our farm in Bama, Burkina Faso. We want to be able to train and then equip local families to obtain and then raise […]
Talents
What are your gifts, your talents, your unique skills? What can you bring to the table and use for changing the world? How can you spend yourself on behalf of the poor? Grain of Hope needs a lot more than just financial contributions. We’ve partnered with skilled people from all walks of life – ag […]
The Boy’s Cigar Box
I remember one year during our Grain of Hope month a 4th grade boy showed up with a cigar box. Every year when it came to Grain of Hope Sunday we would always do the offering in a different way than we normally did. We would all get up from our seats and bring our […]