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The LYF launches Farmer Radio in Ghana

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.

Chai ni Mali – the Value of Tea

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.

LYF Youth Enterprise expanding in to Manchester

Farmer Radio in DRC – Presenter Interview

The Lorna Young Foundation’s Radio presenter Jasmin talks of the Lorna Young Foundation’s radio outreach programme and how it is trying to improve women’s lives through cocoa in the DRC

Trustee Profile – Julie Harrington

Our Trustee, Julie Harrington, joined the LYF after spending several months supporting us through the Small Charities Coalition Skills Sharing Programme. Here is an extract of an interview with Julie by the SCC.

New Smallholder Support Network Leaflet

The LYF’s smallholder Support Network is now in its 4th year and is continuing to make an impact for African farmers…..

LYF DRC Farmer Radio Featured in Yorkshire Post

Marie-Claire Kid looks at one organisation helping to lift people out of poverty in Africa, all from a North Yorkshire house.

LYF’s Smallholder Support Network Demonstrates Real Impact with Kenyan Coffee Smallholders

One of the biggest problems facing poor smallholders in developing…

Join the Fairtrade Debate

With Fairtrade reaching 25 years, there is a growing debate…

The OCC and Abiyot

Here at the LYF we are really proud of the…