{"id":16337,"date":"2021-02-17T16:56:52","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T16:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=16337"},"modified":"2021-02-17T16:56:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T16:56:53","slug":"gfi-grants-for-pig-project-and-community-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2021\/gfi-grants-for-pig-project-and-community-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"GFI grants support pig project in Rwanda, community garden in North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/produce-grown-at-community-garden.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/produce-grown-at-community-garden.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/produce-grown-at-community-garden-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Church of the Brethren\u2019s Global Food Initiative (GFI) has announced its first two grants for 2021, supporting a pig project of the Church of the Brethren in Rwanda and a community garden of St. Peter Lutheran Church in Southport, N.C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Rwanda<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A grant of $3,500 will purchase feed for a pig project of the Church of the Brethren in Rwanda, where pandemic-related border closings with Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have doubled the cost of feed. Previous grants to this project, made in 2019 and 2020, total $30,000. This year the \u201cpassing the gift\u201d phase of the project begins, in which animals from a central farm established in the project\u2019s first year will be given to Twa families. The Twa people are a major outreach focus of the Brethren in Rwanda. The plan is to distribute 180 pigs to 90 families over the next three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>North Carolina<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The St. Peter Lutheran Church Community Garden has received $1,000 from the GFI, which is one of four funding partners including the congregation. Total budget for the establishment of this \u201cGiving Garden\u201d is $8,500. The garden is designed to be a connection for the senior citizens and youth of the community while promoting fresh vegetables. \u201cYouth and seniors will together experience the wholesomeness of gardening along with the fellowship and satisfaction of physical work,\u201d said the grant announcement. \u201cVolunteers from the church and community will support the effort, and the church has reached out to high school service groups and county juvenile services to find youth to participate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Find out more about the GFI and how to give financial support at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethren.org\/gfi\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"www.brethren.org\/gfi\">www.brethren.org\/gfi<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Find more Church of the Brethren news:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/health-care-education-scholarships\/\">Health Care Education Scholarships are awarded to nine recipients<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/engage-event-supports-mission\/\">Engage event offers opportunity to gather in support of global mission, resources are available<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/shine-curriculum-for-fall-2026\/\">Shine curriculum for Fall 2026 includes new features<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/bfia-grants-go-to-churches-and-camp\/\">BFIA grants support congregations\u2019 outreach to neighbors and a memorial to victims of violence, among other projects<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/elizabethtown-hosts-rise-up-conference\/\">Volunteers rise up: New CWS outreach campaign draws refugee advocates to Elizabethtown Church<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of the Brethren\u2019s Global Food Initiative (GFI) has announced its first two grants for 2021, supporting a pig project of the Church of the Brethren in Rwanda and a community garden of St. Peter Lutheran Church in Southport, N.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1703],"tags":[1933,3,1753,1507,1260,1844,1932,208],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-16337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-agriculture","tag-church-of-the-brethren","tag-community-gardens","tag-gfi","tag-global-food-initiative","tag-grants","tag-pig-raising","tag-rwanda"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16338,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16337\/revisions\/16338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16337"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=16337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}