Posts by Alicia Pierro

The 2023 Face-to-Face Victory Gardens Benefit was a huge success, with over $90,000 raised to support our Victory Garden Campaigns in Cambodia and Malawi! Thank you to the individual donors who purchased tickets, sponsored guests to attend, donated in lieu of attending, donated during the live auction, and supported our work. Thanks to your generosity we…

Exciting News Alert! We’re thrilled to share that thanks to the incredible generosity of the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI), our F2F Victory Garden Campaign in Cambodia is set to bloom! With CFLI’s support, we’re on a mission to make a difference in the lives of over 3,000 incredible women and girls across 1,000…

Come join us on Thursday, November 9th at One Vanderbilt in NYC for our annual Victory Gardens Gala!

Our F2F Victory Garden Campaign in Cambodia is gaining interest from outside organizations. Local Cambodian youth group, PSDS, recently took part in a 3-day victory garden workshop. Here they learned the fundamentals of creating and maintaining a victory garden. The fruits of their labor resulted in the creation of a garden for the family of…

This past March, Cyclone Freddy wreaked havoc on southern Malawi impacting many of the communities where Face-to-Face works.  As rain continued to fall throughout the month, almost half of the country was faced with damage from the storm. Malawi experienced the equivalent of 3.5 feet of rain in 4 straight days.  Over 1,200 people have…

This is Mary David, 35, pictured here with one of her 3 children. This is what remains of their home after Cyclone Freddy tore through southern Malawi. The family is still residing in the remaining portion of the house. She’s fearful her maize field has been destroyed but since Mary is single she is staying…

Sadly, every year we’re finding ourselves talking about the same catastrophic events hitting the same region, and this year is no exception. Tropical Cyclone Freddy, already the longest-lived tropical storm in history, has ripped through southern Africa for the second time in a month. After smashing records for lasting so long and intensifying so often,…

We are pleased to be partnering with organic farm expert from USAID’s Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture program, Jason Reed. Jason will be working closely with the F2F Malawi team over the next week or two to teach new practices that focus on making current maize fields more diverse, productive, and sustainable as well as…

The Face-to-Face Project is thrilled to announce that we are continuing our partnership with SENSE Foundation Brussels over the next 2 years. We are working hard to increase the number of victory gardens in our Victory Garden Campaign in central Malawi. This will help even more families grow their own food, save money, generate income,…

2022 ACHIEVEMENTS: 120,000  People Averting Hunger 26,000  Families with Gardens378  Malawi Villages with Gardens16 Cambodia Villages with Gardens