Banana workers' Farm Co-op in Cameroon needs your support!

Inspired  by a recent Banana Link training programme delivered to banana plantation workers in Cameroon, members of the Fako Agricultural Workers Union have set up their own co-operative farm, with the aim of improving their living standards, creating jobs for male and female Cameroonians at large and also to alleviate poverty. 

With 500 members, most of whom are workers of the Cameroon Development Corporation Banana group, the co-op has built a poultry barn and a piggery which hold an average of 2000 birds and 50 piglets respectively. The co-operative currently has a labour force of six - three men and three women - who are actively taking care of the animals and birds, while also cultivating maize, which is the principal ingredient of the feed for the pigs and chickens. There is also a snail farm under construction.

The co-operative does, however, urgently need help obtaining tools and equipment. Among the equipment they are looking to buy are two Automatic Poultry Feeders and Drinkers at the cost of around £750. 

If you are able to make a donation, however small, to help the co-op buy equipment, you can donate by contacting banana Link
 info@bananalink.org