Africa Invest

Our social programmes

We have continually focused on and insisted that our commitment to poverty reduction is an absolute. Without this we would never have invested in the first place. In respect of our £2million pilot scheme our profit motive was only to prove the investment case, on the basis that this will then attract further investment and by multiplication of investment schemes the future of Africa will improve substantially. As we continually stress, giving has failed Africa whereas investment can transform her.

We now have over 2,000 employees, over 8,000 families participating in our outgrower schemes and 1,700 children and elderly in our feeding programmes. Malawi family units typically represent 10 family members and therefore our pilot scheme impacts positively on an estimated 83,000 people.

 
We have created one of the most ethical investments
 Against a backdrop of desperate poverty, we have established operational practice that forces back poverty and provides sustainable financial improvement to thousands of Malawians.
Our overall social goals and objectives are to improve sustainable livelihoods of rural communities by building on
their capacities and reducing vulnerabilities through:
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 provision of mass employment to immediately access means of earning money
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 provision of greater security and availability of year round employment through irrigation, allowing for two to three crop programmes per annum
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 establishing feeding programmes in the villages next to our farms to provide a nutritional porridge seven days a week to highly vulnerable people, such as orphan children, the very elderly and HIV sufferers
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 the establishment of a micro-economy built around cash, rather than mere sustainable existence
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 at village level and in conjunction with the NGO community, to strive to fulfill all millennium goal objectives as agreed by the United Nations within 24 months of one of our farms being established.

Our commitment to poverty alleviation is fundamental to our business development.
The outcome of a successful £120million fund raising for Malawi we estimate to be as follows:
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 over 26,000 people employed
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 over 100,000 families in outgrower schemes
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 over 22,000 vulnerables in our feeding programmes.
Taken together this investment will financially impact and benefit circa 1.3 million people, 9% of the entire population of Malawi.