Encouragement

"Finally, I say yes, together it is possible to Dry Out Hunger."

This is from an email sent by Albert Bwinga. Bwinga is a truly passionate man our team met in Rumphi, a man eager to help others. He works with Action Aid, the international organization that strives against poverty and human injustice.

In his email, he expressed his excitement for solving the problem of food preservation in Malawi and his willingness to devote his considerable skills and enthusiasm to help Tricycle Harvest reach that goal.

We are incredibly grateful to have met him, and we are looking forward to working with him. Because he was right, together it is possible.

written by Riley Richards

Malawi Food Crisis

When someone is driven by a specific cause, gripped by a passionate goal, it is empowering to have that goal reinforced by recent events. However, in this case the news is not happy. Malawi, the country in which Tricycle Harvest International has focused the bulk of our attention, has been experiencing a drought, and because of this, 6 million people are in serious need of food assistance. It is such a significant crisis that the United Nations World Food Program has given it the highest classification of emergency. Of course, the U.N. and the Malawian government are doing everything they can to solve the dilemma, but it simply cannot be solved without help. Now more than ever, food preservation by solar dehydration is possibly the most conceivably promising way to eradicate death from starvation once and for all.  

written by Riley Richards 

Thoughts from Riley Richards

Wonderful people, I have recently been given the incredible opportunity to become the Marketing Director of the organization Tricycle Harvest International.

But the more profoundly exciting thing is that by utilizing sustainable solar dehydration techniques, as well as encouraging, educating, and equipping people to do the same for themselves, hunger in rural Africa could conceivably be eradicated in the foreseeable future. This is the aim of Tricycle Harvest. It is not simply about saving lives (as vitally meaningful as that is), but it is about cultural enrichment and breaking the cycle of poverty for people who have known little else. Starving people could finally have enough food.

I would be deeply honored and delighted to have you all be a part of this as well, in whatever capacity you are able. It simply can't be done without help, and we would love to have yours.

Take a peek at the website, www.tricycleharvest.org for more information.

Stay gold.