United States Committee for FAO

Mission

The United States Committee for FAO is dedicated to helping people throughout the world to feed themselves. Its purpose is two-fold. First, to provide financial assistance for projects to aid the rural poor in developing nations, particularly projects to increase food production and access to food. Second, to raise public awareness in the United States of the need to raise levels of nutrition and standards of living and to improve agricultural productivity in developing nations.

Programs

The Growing Connection: Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and across the United States. Expansion to Haiti and Jamaica pending. Support to tsunami relief and small-scale farming worldwide via Telefood projects of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN.

Current Projects on GlobalGiving

Water-Saving Agriculture and IT for Ghanaian Youth

Vegetable Gardens & Internet for Indian Youth

Int'l Teacher Training on Agriculture - Mexico

Connect young people fighting hunger

Personnel Overview

Dr. Joe Kwarteng - Ghana Project Coordinator
Joe is co-founder of the not-for-profit NGO, Development Assistance to School Farms and Dean of Agricultural Extension at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. Joe has worked extensively as a consultant, including for the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Ghana, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the International Rescue Committee.

Ida Kwarteng - Ghana Project Coordinator
Ida is co-founder of the not-for-profit NGO, Development Assistance to Schools Farms. Since 2002, Ida has worked with her husband to support schools in Ghana to establish viable school farms for the effective teaching and learning of agriculture as an important, practical and profitable subject. She has her Masters in Educational Administration at the University of Cape Coast, Gha

Personnel Statistics

Robert Reddick,
President
Founded in 1997
Employees: 0
Volunteers: 12