Posts by Alicia Pierro

F2F would like to give special thanks to our partners Action on Poverty and Australian Aid for not only supporting our Victory Garden Campaign over the last year but continuing their support into 2023. Over 25,000 families, 112,500 people, with victory gardens are now eating better, saving money and taking small steps out of poverty.…

Chun Sim and her husband, Seang Sameth, worked as migrant farmers in Thailand. Along with being separated from family, the work was physically exhausting and low paying.After returning to Cambodia, the couple became hooked on victory gardening in 2019. Growing without chemicals appealed to them and they came to love experimenting with victory gardening’s myriad…

Join us on Thursday, November 3rd for our annual Victory Gardens Benefit! We are thrilled to be coming back together again and hope you can join us for cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and inspiring conservations where you’ll hear all the things we are doing to help families beat hunger, one garden at a time.

We’re pleased to announce our victory garden program in Cambodia is now recognized as a Cambodian-registered NGO/charity. F2F Cambodia, like F2F Malawi, will continue to be under the direction of our original F2F Project. As we’ve increased to over 1,100 Cambodian families eating better, saving money, and earning income, we’re excited to continue pushing the…

Aaron Mazinga and his wife Lizzy live in the village of Mpambachuiu with their 2 children. After hearing about the many benefits villagers were seeing from their F2F victory gardens, i.e., saving money on buying food, providing a healthier diet for the family, selling surplus vegetables, and just giving an overall sense of food security,…

The Face-to-Face Project is thrilled to announce that we are partnering with SENSE Foundation Brussels in 2022 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, decrease childhood malnutrition, and improve overall life in their…

Being Women’s History Month, we are proud to highlight and celebrate all the incredible women that are part of the F2F team. Without their hard work, dedication, passion, and insight we wouldn’t be where we are today. Meet Sakara In: Since 2018, Sakara has led F2F’s Victory Garden Campaign in Cambodia, improving the lives of…

Than learned about F2F’s Victory Garden Campaign back in 2019. This proved to be fortuitous because Covid brought lockdowns and prevented Than and his wife, Chea, to go work in Thailand — something they usually did for many months at a time. They would take one child with them, leaving the other two children with…

Back in March of 2019, Cyclones Idai and Kenneth displaced tens of thousands of families in Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, leaving many in need of basic supplies like food and water. Sadly, we are here once again as Tropical Cyclone Ana tore across southern Africa last week and the Malawian President declared a state of…

SIMON & MAGRET CONTINUE LOOKING AHEAD When we first met Magret and Simon in 2019, their garden helped them save enough money to join a village savings banking group. For the first time, they could plan for the future — an exciting, new luxury for tho se accustomed to living hand-to-mouth. Since 2019, however, floods,…