Outreach and Handcrafts Initiators for Development (OHID)

Outreach and Handcrafts Initiators for Development (OHID) is a CBO which helps community members to acquire life skills on in areas of agriculture where we deliver trainings on land preparations, planting skill, sorting and identifying improved seeds like seed selection which mature quickly, tolerant and resistant to dry out and pests, we train farmers on use of fertilizers like compost manure, farm yard, organic and inorganic manure to compare the performance , we deliver training on soli management, crop management in terms of early weeding, pre and post harvesting handling, storing and improve on storage facilities, best practices on drying of crops, value addition whenever farmers harvest and the price is very low to not be cheated by middlemen. we link farmers to service providers who can offer adequate services at a lower and affordable price. OHID interventions are centered on improving well-being of community members through farming (crop and animal husbandry), life skills like additional sources of income in their households like delivering trainings on handcrafts, and we support farmers and other people to acquire English language as a way of being able to communicate with others while selling their products and purchasing, also we train farmers to read and write such that they become able to take records of what they do on daily basis. we conduct community meetings where we share with community members on financial discipline measures, prevention of diseases by putting into action hygiene of food, body and others.