Community Projects
Farm Fundraisers I Wage Seeds I Family Gift Hampers I Keep A Girl Child In School (KAGIS) I Community Hand-Dug Wells
Farm Fundraisers - Capital Campaign
Permaculture Institute
Build The Permaculture Institute with Us
Wage Farm has outgrown its current facilities. We need a permanent home, a place where we can train more farmers, process more spices, host international students, and demonstrate regenerative agriculture at scale.
Current Fundraising Goals
The current fundraising goals include $10,000 for Permaculture Institute land (seeking donors), $20,000 for Institute construction (planning phase), and $10,000 for farm development covering infrastructure, irrigation, and processing. General farm operations require ongoing support and you can give contributions of any amount.
Wage Seeds. Sharing Seeds. Building Resilience.
Seed Sovereignty Project
The Crisis - Why Seed Sovereignty Matters
Across Africa and around the world, seed diversity is collapsing. According to agricultural researchers, we have lost over 75% of crop diversity in the last century. Meanwhile, multinational corporations patent seeds, forcing farmers to buy new seeds every season rather than saving from their own harvest. Industrial agriculture has eroded seed diversity and locked farmers into patented, genetically modified seeds they cannot save or share. Wage Seeds fights back through a simple, community-driven revolving model.
Our Model - Click to read more
Wage Farm provides non-GMO, non-patented spice and vegetable seeds to small-scale women farmers. At harvest, the farmer returns twice the amount of seeds they received. Those seeds go to two new women farmers. The cycle continues, expanding access without expensive inputs.
We then buy harvested spices at 10% above market price. That 10% goes into the women’s Village Bank, their money, their decisions.
Wage Seeds
Our Revolving Seed Model
Share A Seed. Grow A Movement
1. Wage provides seeds → 2. Woman farmer grows harvest → 3. She returns double the seeds → 4. Two new women receive seeds → (repeat)
The Village Bank Bonus
When women sell their harvested spices to Wage Spices, we pay 10% above market price. That extra 10% goes into their Women Group Village Bank. The women control this cash 100%. Wage provides only guidance on record keeping. They decide together how to use it – school fees, medical emergencies, farm improvements, business start-ups.
Community Seed Banks
Preserving Indigenous Seeds For Future Generations
Our ultimate vision is to establish community-owned seed banks across Uganda. Indigenous varieties saved, shared, and grown generation after generation.
What A Seed Bank Does
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Stores indigenous, climate-adapted seeds
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Allows farmers to borrow seeds and return double after harvest
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Preserves biodiversity in the face of climate change
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Builds community resilience without outside dependency
Family Gift Hampers
Food insecurity is real for thousands of families across Uganda. Our Family Hamper is a gift box of nutritious, organic food designed to feed a family for weeks. You buy the hamper. We deliver it to a family in need. It is that simple.
$5. One Girl. One Year of School.
Keep A Girl Child in School (KAGIS)
Build The Permaculture Institute with Us
Imagine being a teenage girl and missing one week of school every single month. Not because you are sick. Not because you are lazy. Because you cannot afford sanitary pads. That is the reality for millions of girls across Uganda. Many drop out entirely. Others fall behind. Their dreams shrink.
Wage Farm’s KAGIS project (Keep a Girl Child in School) changes that.
How It Works
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We identify 1,000 girls annually through partner schools
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Each girl receives 3 packs of reusable or disposable sanitary pads per term
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A school year has 3 terms – consistent support all year
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We provide menstrual hygiene education to both boys and girls, breaking stigma and fostering peer support
The Deeper Impact
When girls stay in school, they are more likely to:
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Complete secondary education
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Delay early marriage and childbirth
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Earn higher incomes as adults
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Advocate for better policies for women and girls
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Break the cycle of poverty for their own children
Community Hand-Dug Wells
In rural Uganda, women and girls spend hours every day walking to collect water often dirty, unsafe water that causes diarrheal diseases, typhoid, and lost school days. A single hand-dug well, properly protected, changes that calculus completely.
