KickStart International

KickStart International was awarded$25,000 in multi-year funding to be dispersed in installments of $12,500 over two years. Funds will be leveraged to build organizational capacity in the areas of training and performance management. Using KickStart’s Money Maker Pumps, small-shareholder farmers irrigate crops to dramatically increase crop yields and income. To date, this strategy has lifted over 1 million people out of poverty. In accordance with its 2021 Strategic Plan, KickStart hopes to rapidly scale pump distribution and serve another million people in Sub-Saharan Africa over the next 5 years. Much of this work will be accomplished through an updated partnership-based sales model in which NGO and community partners purchase and distribute the pumps.