the Mission

I started Tricycle Harvest International because the idea of someone dying every four seconds simply because they didn't have enough food became unbearable to me.  The effects of a lack of food are life long and ending hunger became my passion.  But, admittedly, the task seemed overwhelming.  That is until I remembered Mother Teresa's quote: "If you can't feed a hundred people then just feed one."  And I thought, I can do that.  And then that one person turned into one family and then one village and then one district.

 The solution to ending hunger in rural Africa came to me after traveling to developing nations and seeing rotting piles of produce in fields, by the street and behind markets.  People had worked so hard to grow fruit and vegetables but because of a lack of electricity there was no refrigeration.  And without money and access to jars and lids there was no canning.  There simply was no way to preserve the food.  And then I had it.

I grew up with my mom drying food and I have been using a food dehydrator in my own home for several years.  Put that together with the sun's energy - a free and renewable resource available to all, even the extremely poor in rural Africa, and we have sustainable food preservation.  By using solar dehydrators the food is kept safe, away from bugs, rodents, and bacteria as it dries.  

That is why Tricycle Harvest International exists - to end hunger through the teaching, building, and giving of solar dehydrators to those living in extreme poverty in the villages in Africa.