Dear Friends, Family and Community!

Forty years ago, the Georgia Citizen's Coalition was formed to address hunger in our state. Located in South Atlanta, a community where one in four people goes to bed hungry, the organization sits on 7 acres of viable land to grow food for local families. Their tractor is no longer reliable. They need a new one to start farming and increase production. With a good tractor, the Coalition can feed 500 hundred families per season, and the investment will guarantee food sovereignty for a decade!

In farming, as in fundraising, many hands make light work. Umoja means unity, which means we are all in this together. When you contribute to this collective effort you put this value into practice.

The Umoja Farm is not just a way to feed people a meal, the farm provides the community with a true and lasting solution in a so-called 'food desert'. The tractor will help produce crops that supply multiple farmers markets, where food stamps go twice as far. It will help sustain a powerful, Black-led, 40 year-old organization based in the vision of poor and working people.

A tractor is a small piece of equipment with huge significance - it can turn a small garden back into the working farm this land was meant to be. The 9 Gammon Avenue building is a community hub in South Atlanta. In a moment when young people are in danger, there are no jobs, and visionary leadership is under attack, the Umoja Garden represents a new economy and a powerful, collective effort to feed and sustain our communities.

Please lend a hand to lift up success in this community. Contribute at a level that is meaningful to you, and share this fundraiser with the people you know who care about justice, local food, nutrition, and mental health.