Creating Change Around the World

During the past 20 years, I have had the privilege of working in Uganda, Haiti, Niger and, Liberia. Part of this sojourn has been getting to know the problems of my African friends. They let me know that staying healthy in the tropics is a challenge. This led to an intensive study on the topic, with amazing results. There are healthcare options that are affordable. They largely fall under the umbrella of a Socrates quote, "Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food."
When I discovered Thrive for Good, I was delighted that this was in their teaching. Therefore, I have become an avid teacher and have found a platform from which to do it.
During my recent trip to Liberia, as many as 30% of the people in our teaching groups had stories of healing from the teaching. A very remarkable, impactful result. We had children revived from malnutrition, a mayor relieved of fever, an honest hard-working farmer relieved of muscle aches and many people relieved from mild fevers and stomach problems. The stories were very heartwarming as people actually implemented the teaching!

Poverty is directly tied to ill health. The Thrive system is based on people taking responsibility for their own health through locally available resources. This is truly empowering. I use the same interventions myself and suffered no ill health during a month in Liberia.  If you wish to partner in this work, thank you for doing that. Provision comes in many ways, so may you be blessed in some way as we partner together. I LOVE this work and will continue for the foreseeable future. The next upcoming trip will be from January to June 2023. I will be attending a Discipleship training school (DTS) with YWAM (Youth with a Mission) to become a leader within YWAM to promote Thrive for Good's Life Garden projects. You will receive a tax receipt from Thrive for Good for your contribution.

Your Donation Dollars are Going Far!

With knowledge, simple tools, and starter seeds, people who can't afford to buy healthy food can grow their own - almost anywhere in the world. It costs $15 per person to produce nutrient-dense, life-giving foods and proven natural medicines and provide a sustainable source of potential income generation.

Hidden Hunger is Everywhere

The single biggest health challenge today is unequal access to nutrition. 2 billion people - including 1 in 3 children - aren't getting enough micronutrients to reach their full potential and fight disease.

It shows up in wealthy countries where packaged and fast foods are cheaper than fresh fruits and vegetables.

It happens mostly in poor countries, where the first priority is to get food in bellies, and "nutrition" means meal after meal of processed, white grains and corn. Because even among farming families in the world’s poorest countries, people aren’t growing nutrient-dense foods.

But developing brains and bodies are hungry for micronutrients. Without real nutrition, children never get a fair chance. They can't thrive and their immunity isn't strong enough to fight infection.    In fact, 45% of deaths in children under the age of 5 are related to poor nutrition.

Hidden hunger keeps people from improving their own lives. It causes kids to miss school. It keeps adults from work when they're chronically ill. And it orphans too many children.

The diseases caused by hidden hunger cost the poor too much to treat if they have access to healthcare at all. And the burden of disease from hidden hunger keeps the best work of charities from making enough impact. Because nutrition is a basic need and only when it's met can people thrive. 

The Solution

Until now, a nourishing, whole foods diet has seemed out of reach for the poor. That's because we've come to see food as a cost and healthy food as a luxury.

But through Life Gardens, communities including prisons, schools, HIV groups and churches are able to grow health. Thrive trains and equips people to grow an abundance of healthy, organic, disease-fighting foods and medicinal plants.

These projects are called Life Gardens because growing health is the first step to a thriving life.

The Thrive model works anywhere there's:

• 100 square feet of soil (the size of a standard living room)
• 6 hours of daily sunlight
• Scarce rainfall (500 mm / 20 inches a year)

It's based on the best organic growing methods, nutritional research and an education-first approach. 

About Thrive

Thrive is a worldwide not-for-profit based in Canada operating out of Kenya putting nutritional security - not just food security - in the hands of the poor so they can improve their lives.

Thrive empowers the poor to be self-sufficient, starting with nutrition. When people can take health into their own hands, they have new dignity and pride. Nutritional-security also gives them hope for a better future without the constant burden of disease.

Vision & Mission

By 2025, Thrive will empower 1 million people in the developing world to lead healthy and sustainable lives by training them to grow nutritious and income-generating whole foods.

When people have everything they need to grow healthy, disease-fighting foods, they have the foundation for reaching their fullest potential.