Our Core programmes

Strengthening Livelihoods and Community Empowerment.

Harvest, Hope & Rising Foundation (HHRF) is committed to enhancing animal health, promoting sustainable agriculture, empowering youth and women, and addressing gender-based violence in South Sudan. By collaborating with local authorities, line ministries, and grassroots organisations, the foundation provides training, advocacy, and resources to build resilient communities and sustainable livelihoods, and this will include introducing and promoting climate-smart agricultural practices that enhance productivity and resilience in line with the changing climatic pattern. By equipping farmers with knowledge in soil fertility management, irrigation techniques, and sustainable pest control, the foundation helps communities transition from subsistence farming to commercial agriculture.
The foundation also supports smallholder farmers by introducing drought-resistant crops and organic
farming techniques while facilitating access to local markets to ensure fair prices for their produce.
Through training programs, local farmers gain the skills needed to improve yields, generate income, and strengthen food supply chains, thus fostering long-term economic independence and sustainability.

Environmental conservation and protection

HHRF fully takes into account the destruction of the environment and the negative long- and short-term effects on planet Earth. HHRF has noted with concern that human activities are the single largest destroyer of the environment. Through the activities of deforestation for firewood and fuel, cultivation of the land for growing food crops, and also the use of chemical fertilisers, pesticides and fungicides, the nature and texture of the soil have been destroyed. Water pollution is also on the increase through dumping of the commercial and industrial wastes, used plastics such as beverage bottles and the reclaiming of swamps and water catchment areas for more land space for industrialization that eventually distorts the ecosystems and its symbiotic balance.

HHRF also takes note of the petroleum as well as other minerals exploitation activities that are taking place in South Sudan at a very rapid pace. These activities have very negative adverse effects on the environment, implying that the communities in these areas need continuous sensitisation on how to respond to cases of any breach that may threaten their livelihoods and lives. The fact that the effects are long-term means HHRF has the obligation to take the lead in seeking partners to tackle this crucial needs gap, as the effects are so evident in South Sudan through floods, drought, soil degradation and increasing poverty.

Psycho-social Support (PSS):

The influx of displaced people fleeing armed conflicts from their countries, such as the Republic of Sudan, as well as within South Sudan in places like Jonglei and Western Equatoria, warrants the establishment of some safe havens such as in Malakal in Upper Nile, Leer and Rubkona in Unity State and Bor in Jonglei.   The traumatic experience that these communities, especially the women and children, who have gone through the conflicts and experienced the negative effects, forms a major humanitarian needs gap that requires intervention. It is within this context that HHRF, with its professional manpower, makes it a priority to provide this crucial service to these refugees, returnees and IDPs, including the host communities.

Further catastrophes, like the natural calamities of floods in Greater Unity and Bahr-el- Ghazal, parts of Central Equatoria, Eastern Equatoria, and Pibor Special Administrative Zone associated with climate change, are on the agenda list of HHRF service delivery because of the acuteness of the needs gap in terms of food shortages and security.

HHRF also takes note of the petroleum as well as other minerals exploitation activities that are taking place in South Sudan at a very rapid pace. These activities have very negative adverse effects on the environment, implying that the communities in these areas need continuous sensitisation on how to respond to cases of any breach that may threaten their livelihoods and lives. The fact that the effects are long-term means HHRF has the obligation to take the lead in seeking partners to tackle this crucial needs gap, as the effects are so evident in South Sudan through floods, drought, soil degradation and increasing poverty.