This season is not the first one that Leonida is working alongside One Acre Fund. She has been a member for a few years now, having joined the program in 2012 and, although she is the only person featured in the above picture,(others in the group were unavailable during profile collections), she is actually representing her group of 14 farmers in Webuye Duka Zone District, Kenya.
Leonida is often described by her community as a very friendly person and she decided to be the one to represent her group because she wanted to help more farmers. Like many of her fellow farmers, Leonida decided she wanted to be part of the One Acre Fund community in order to make more farmer friends in her community and she hopes to use the profits from this year’s harvest to send her children to school.
This loan will not only help Leonida but the whole group, who will receive maize seeds and fertilizer to plant a total of 5.31 acres of land.
In this group: Leonida, Knight , Martin, Abraham , Eunice , Lucy , Ruth , Emmanuel , Brenda , Noah , Stephen , Ayub , Joseph , James