About GardenAfrica

Why GardenAfrica is Different

We see our work not as charity, but as solidarity. Whilst charity is all too often about externally imposed solutions, solidarity is a partnership of equals. Respecting and adding value to existing knowledge, GardenAfrica is working with local partners to build sustainable plant-based livelihoods.

GardenAfrica is a unique organisation; the only UK-based charity developing horticultural solutions in sub-Saharan Africa. Using horticulture as a development tool, GardenAfrica addresses a range of issues typically addressed by disparate organisations, covering livelihood development, education & training, ecology, health, and conservation. Ever present issues such as HIV/AIDS, water, gender and biological and cultural diversity cut across all these programme areas.

90% of donations to GardenAfrica will be used directly in the field. GardenAfrica is a small and flexible charity. We strive to keep our overheads to an absolute minimum, so your donation is much more likely to go straight into a project where it will make a difference to someone's life. Please see our Gifts for Good for examples of what your donation can achieve.

By Gift Aiding your donation, your donation will go even further, ensuring that none is spent on administration. Please visit our donate page, download, complete and send us your GiftAid form.

At GardenAfrica we see our work as solidarity not just charity. While charity is all too often about externally imposed, yet well meaning solutions, solidarity is a partnership of equals in search of positive social change.

GardenAfrica fosters self reliance by training people to teach others in their community how to grow food and medicinal herbs with the most effective use of water and other available resources. GardenAfrica equips communities to plant and harvest their gardens without relying on further aid and inputs. GardenAfrica's role is to set up the projects, train community leaders, provide support, and capture and disseminate data, and then withdraw. Each project should ideally have the capacity to grow into a small business, and support continued training within each community. Thus the gardens are sustainable in every sense of the word.