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Fancy being our Treasurer?
04/01/2019 – 11:43 am
A chance to join one of the most unusual charities in existence …
Lorna’s Biographical Honour & A Parliamentary Motion
06/11/2018 – 3:41 pm
Lorna Young selected for inclusion! Honouring Scottish Women.
The LYF launches Farmer Radio in Ghana
19/06/2017 – 10:27 pm
June 2017, and the Lorna Young Foundation travelled to Ghana and Burkina Faso to launch BRAVE’s radio extension programme. The aim is to improve the resilience of farming communities to droughts and lack of access to good quality water. Ultimately this impacts on both their health and livelihoods, through their ability to grow food crops and keep livestock.
The LYF and Zakat
16/06/2017 – 12:16 pm
Muslims helping ALL poor farmers with zakat – throughout the year.
Chai ni Mali – the Value of Tea
14/03/2017 – 8:23 pm
We are all pretty familiar with the value of tea in our own lives (where indeed would polite society be without it?) But one of the aims of the Lorna Young Foundation is to support small tea farmers in developing countries to receive the true value of their crop.
Farmer Radio in Tanzania
17/02/2017 – 6:24 pm
Cristina Talens from the LYF in the UK and Jasmine Bakula, our fabulous radio presenter from the DRC travelled to Rungwe to record the first radio programmes of Chai Ni Mali – the latest LYF Farmer Radio venture
The Entrepreneur Combating Climate Change one Cup at a Time
12/06/2014 – 2:05 pm
The LYF’s Cristina Talens is the founder of Source Climate Change Coffee; In this interview, she explains what inspired her to set up Source, her encounter with Bill Clinton and her passion for sustainable agriculture.
LYF and Ringtons Tea Partner with Tanzania Producers
03/04/2014 – 2:51 pm
In March 2014,LYF Project Manager Cristina Talens, Joseph Macharia and Ringtons’ Responsible Sourcing Manager spent a week in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania, working with staff from the Wakulima Tea Company (WATCO) and the RSTGA, to set up a Smallholder Support Network radio-extension programme.
