The Shared Interest office will close for Christmas at 3pm on 23 December and reopen on 5 January.
We wish you a very happy and peaceful festive period!
Launched in July, this 12 month project aims to strengthen the sustainability of the coffee supply chain, directly supporting 500 farmers in the Cyato region of Rwanda.
Shared Interest Foundation is excited to collaborate with Côte d’Ivoire’s fair trade network and cocoa co-operative, CAYAT, to deliver a youth empowerment project funded by the Chocolonely Foundation.
In urban Burkina Faso and rural Nicaragua, our soilless farming projects are enabling over 100 women to overcome barriers, engage in agriculture, improve their livelihoods and strengthen their resilience against the impacts of climate change.
This project, launched in February 2024, supported 210 coffee farmers (46% women) in western Uganda to diversify into beekeeping, providing them with a second source of income alongside coffee farming.
Launched in April # 2021, this project supported 365 coffee farmers in rural Uganda to increase their household resilience through growing passion fruits to generate a second source of income and implement improved farming practices.
Learn more about Shared Interest Foundation's recently completed project, which supported 40 female shea nut collectors in rural Burkina Faso to diversify into the production of shea butter.
This 12-month project, delivered in partnership with Banyankole Coffee Services (BCS), is supporting 210 coffee farmers to diversify into beekeeping, providing a vital second source of income.
Shared Interest Foundation’s latest pilot project will research, develop, produce and deliver an innovative biopesticide designed to strengthen the cocoa supply chain in Côte d'Ivoire by increasing production through enhanced pest and disease management.
This one-year project, launched in April 2023 in partnership with Ugandan coffee co-operative Banyankole Coffee Services (BCS), supported 300 coffee farmers to increase their climate resilience through implementing agroforestry activities.
This Friday marks #internationalwomensday, and we want to share with you some of the ways our projects are involving and empowering women across the globe.
To celebrate two decades of building a fairer world, Shared Interest Foundation is proud to present a special anniversary film, chronicling the growth and various, vital impacts of its work across the globe.
Over 12 months, this project enabled the Benkadi de Dakoro Women’s Beekeeping Group to connect their honey processing centre to electricity, supporting them to increase their production volume and their income from sales.
From September 2022 to August 2023, Shared Interest Foundation led a transformative farming project in Burkina Faso called 'Seed to Stall: Increasing Self-sustainability through Soilless Vegetable Farming'. Learn more about the impacts of the project.
One of our lovely supporters, Anne, is taking on the 874 mile John O’Groats to Land’s End cycle challenge with her daughter raising funds for Shared Interest Foundation and two other charities; Peer Talk and Carers Worldwide.
In direct response to the pandemic, our charity, Shared Interest Foundation, has relaunched its Livelihood Security Fund. Here, Programme Manager, Kodzo Korkortsi, based in Ghana, shares with us his thoughts on announcing the first beneficiary.
As the global impact of Covid-19 continues to unfold, it remains unclear how developing world communities will cope with the health, economic, and social hardship caused. Our Livelihood Security Fund can help.
