Enter your text here
Enter your text here
Enter your text here
Enter your text here
MAKING The Impossible
POSSIBLE
DID YOU KNOW?
Agriculture can help reduce poverty, raise incomes and improve food security for 80% of the world’s poor, who live in rural area and work mainly in farming.
In 2017, Building Community Bridges completed an integral strategic pivot that has transformed it into a Community Economic Development CED) nonprofit organization.
Our new CEDI program is operated in partnership with MifonRice, a social enterprise poised to be a powerful engine for decreasing poverty and generating income in Adaklu-Anfoe and the greater Ho region in Ghana.
you are the bridge our communities need to help them cross over To better days. Join Us
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.”
—Rumi
what we do
Our Cedi Program
amazing facts
Koussougba Rural Community
AGRICULTURE:
THE PATH TO DIGNITY AND SELF-RELIANCE
“The time has come for making African agriculture and agribusiness a catalyst for ending poverty. We cannot overstate the importance of agriculture to Africa’s determination to maintain and boost its high growth rates, create more jobs, significantly reduce poverty, and grow enough cheap, nutritious food to feed its families, export its surplus crops while safeguarding the continent’s environment.”
- Makhtar Diop
World Bank Vice President for Africa Region
3.4M
Die from waterborne disease Annually
95%
West and East Africa are the main rice-producing sub-regions in Sub-Saharan Africa, producing 95% of total rice production
61%
water coverage. Well below the target of 75% for the region.
