Mobile App Helps Female Farmers In Gambia Connect With Urban Customers
Source:
Ubergizmo
Gambia, West Africa-based The Wife Project has launched a new Kickstarter campaign today to create a mobile application and website which is going to help connect female farmers in Gambia connect and sell their produce directly to customers in urban markets. The Wife Project engages 300 rural women farmers in gardening, farming and entrepreneurship to reduce their poverty and helps them create a better life for themselves.
Water and seeds are not just some of the problems that these farmers face, instead lack of markets to sell the produce in is a much more pressing issue. Farmers in rural