Rural Empowerment Initiative (REI), a Wisconsin charitable organization, announces Harvest Shares Initiative (HSI), a program which invites supporters across the nation to “share their harvest”. From sharing a portion of their farms’ proceeds, donating part of the revenue from a yard sale, to contributing one day’s paycheck to REI’s Harvest Shares Initiatives, every penny donated will go directly to support impoverished families in West Africa.
REI’s Harvest Shares Initiatives allows individuals, community gardens, family farms and corporate harvesters to share the abundance from a portion of their crops to fund community farms in West Africa that will sustain life and provide hope for families in need.
From family gardens and farmers markets to corporate agricultural farms, all participants play a unique role and contribute to Harvest Shares Initiatives by offering their harvest and valuable time to provide aid and support for malnourished and impoverished families in West Africa. What’s unique about Harvest Shares is that donations from volunteer HSI projects provide long term sustainability for West African families and communities by teaching them to farm and harvest their own nourishment. To learn more about how to help REI and to join Harvest Shares Initiates, please visit, www.ruralempowermentinitiative.org/#!__rei/harvest-shares.
Working in West Africa since 2001, REI founder Rick Slager, grew up on a farm in rural Wisconsin. After fourteen years as a small-business owner in Wisconsin, Rick Slager sold his company to follow his true passion, serving God in rural West Africa. Rick and his family, who divide their time between West Africa and their home in rural Wisconsin, launched the first Harvest Shares Initiative project utilizing their farm land in Wisconsin where they have planted 800 tomato plants and ¼ acre of lettuce which will sell at market to fund long-term and sustainable agricultural projects in West Africa. The Slager’s farm also serves as an educational farm where sponsors, donors, supporters and volunteers can see the type of low-cost and sustainable agricultural methods that are taught in West Africa, such as green houses, treadle pumps, gravity fed irrigation systems, composting, crop rotations, mulching and integrated pest management systems that do not use chemicals.
About Rural Empowerment Initiative
Rural Empowerment Initiative (REI) is a Christian values-based U.S. organization that works to deliver life sustaining sustenance to the developing world without creating dependency, via small and medium business development of rural agricultural projects and programs and support of small-scale businesses throughout West Africa.
REI builds relationships with like-minded non-profits, supporters, donors and volunteers to collaborate and form synergy, advocates for the developing world farmer, raises awareness of the urgent need to sustain life in West Africa and develops donations for projects in the field.
For more information about REI, please visit www.ruralempowermentinitiative.org or call, 1-902-602-4044, or send an email to, rei@africamail.com.
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