Agric Project
Sinapi Aba Trust in line with its mission statement aligns its operations to supporting the vulnerable, economic disadvantaged and less privileged in society, most of whom are women in the rural communities. The Ghanaian economy basically runs on agriculture and therefore provides basic income for majority of the population. However, farmers who are at the lowest on the agriculture-value chain earn very low income and generally fall below the poverty line. This unfortunate situation is the reason why Sinapi Aba takes a strong interest in reversing the narrative in conformity to its mission of serving the Economically Poor.
Sinapi Aba Trust in line with its mission statement aligns its operations to supporting the vulnerable, economic disadvantaged and less privileged in society, most of whom are women in the rural communities. The Ghanaian economy basically runs on agriculture and therefore provides basic income for majority of the population. However, farmers who are at the lowest on the agriculture-value chain earn very low income and generally fall below the poverty line. This unfortunate situation is the reason why Sinapi Aba takes a strong interest in reversing the narrative in conformity to its mission of serving the Economically Poor.
In the last five years, over 5,000 women small holder farmers have benefited in terms of soft agro loans and capacity building, mainly in the Upper East and Northern region of Ghana from partner support from Opportunity Internal Deutschland (OID), whilst DANIDA has supported 200 male and female SME agriculture value chain actors in the acquisition of farm equipment and infrastructure such as farm tractors, combined harvester, warehouse, trucks, milling machine and more in the form of soft loans mainly in the northern sector of Ghana. About 20% of project beneficiaries are situated in the southern parts of the country.
Currently, there is an ongoing partnership project with Opportunity International United Kingdom/United Kingdom Aid Match (OIUK/UKAM) under the theme ‘‘Increasing the Economic Empowerment of Women through Rural Financing’’. The project has supported over 2,800 women small holder farmers with a three-year period soft agro loans and capacity building mainly in the five northern regions and Bono East region of Ghana.