DIG Gift Garden

Dear Friends,
In today’s development landscape, the world is hungry for solutions. We strive for
results we can scale, new technologies to answer old problems.
How can we get young mothers to practice family planning without fear of
stigma? What tools or techniques can we offer farmers to bolster their climate
resilience? How can we help underweight babies thrive?
First, we listen.
DIG works to address the many overlapping challenges facing vulnerable
smallholder farmers, including food and climate insecurity, malnutrition, poverty,
gender inequality, HIV and other disease, land rights, stigma and more.
DIG works alongside these farmers and their families to design solutions that best
meet their unique needs. We meet them where they are, address common
struggles, and connect communities to new resources and services so that they
can be supported holistically.
Since DIG’s founding in 2006, we’ve established over 100 community gardens and
2,500 home gardens. We’ve cultivated former trash heaps into hospital gardens to
supply fresh produce to patients. We’ve mentored farmers in climate-resilient
agriculture on mountainsides, urban jungles, rural plains, sandy deserts and salt
flats. We’ve inspired widows to become entrepreneurs. Our gardens have
withstood droughts and floods, theft and livestock damage, and have taken root in
hospitals, clinics, orphanages, schools, homes and community groups far beyond
the reach of many organizational services.
Whether we are cultivating the earth alongside
mothers, children, people living with HIV, or young men
and women eager for meaningful livelihoods, no two
gardens are alike, just as no two farmers are. They will
tell you, if you just listen.
Sow hope.
Reap Life.
DIG
Sarah Koch
Sarah Koch, Exec. Director/Founder
Olivia Nyaidho, East Africa Director