Common Ground Program

The Common Ground Program is a non government organization that helps people in poverty. The objectives of the CGP are:

• "Increasing the capacity of the hungry, malnourished people to better feed themselves and their families while conserving resources"
• "Provide real incentives, return pride, profit and farming profession to the farming community so as to increase production through the establishment of a food bank and crop diversification"
• "To conserve the rare and endangered crop varieties"
• "Development and promote strategies that improve both the short and long term fertility of the soil"
• "Training of dispossessed girls in income generation, food and nutrition"
• "To promote early childhood education"

The main things the organization does is:

• "It works with people to use and adapt their existing technologies to help them deal with rapidly changing context of their everyday lives"
• "It builds on resources the community already has. It does not impose solutions from the outside but it seeks out new uses of local materials that will improve the quality of the local way of life."
• "It develops technologies, which will compliment local skills and fit easily into the local culture"
• "It works closely with the community to strengthen local institutions"
• "It works to widen the choice of technologies for people who lack the resources to explore what could be available to them"
• "It exchanges experiences and information with other agencies, groups, and key decision-makers as widely as possible"
• "It uses participatory methodologies. People must take the initiative. They must do it themselves, or development is not sustainable"
• "It brings expertise from different programs together to focus on the needs of the community"
• "It aims to be sensitive to gender issues in all its projects. Although women make up half of the population, they are still marginalized in many ways."
• "It explores the potential for income generation in many of its projects. People everywhere need to earn a living"
• "It is aware of the need to protect the environment so that the resources available to this generation are on the hand to support the next."
• "CGP plays that role to this day, reaching out to people who are struggling each day in poor communities to survive and improve their lives. We seek a nation where everyone sleeps in safety and awakens with hope."

The Common Ground Program is a wonderful program with different ways to help people. You can do this anywhere, from your home or all the way in Kenya. But every dollar helps many people.