Yay!!! Thanks to all you lovely people we have just reached a total of 3 million meals donated to the people who need it most!

By buying our Good Little Sausages and Great Big Sausages you are enabling us to helps families such as the Mukango’s in Malawi break free from hunger.

The Mukango family: from left, Faresi, Kesten, Bizwek (15) Hazwel (14) and Chipumulo (12)

Over a decade ago the Mukango’s faced a daily battle with hunger. Determined to free his family from poverty and hunger, the father Kesten along with the help of Christian Aid partner ELDS, learned proper farming techniques, which helped him grow enough food to banish the fear of hunger to history. Seeds, tools, advice and a treadle pump enabled the Mukango’s to grow a second crop, and increase their yield each time. A few years later he led an irrigation scheme – in partnership with ELDS and the Malawian government’s Ministry of Agriculture – that helped his community bring water down from the mountains to the fields below, so they could water their crops all year round and not have to rely on the unreliable rains.

Now the Mukango’s not only have enough to eat, but enough left over to sell to pay for their children’s school fees and improve their home. Kesten is building a new house with a tin roof that won’t leak, his family are now well dressed and hopes for the children’s futures look bright. When eldest daughter Dolika qualified for secondary school the precious opportunity was lost as the family could not afford the fees. Instead she married young. But nowadays, thanks to the project, Biswek – the couple’s second son at 15 – is in secondary school and about to complete his form 2 exams, and his father is visually bursting with pride.

Kesten (foreground, blue shirt) and Faresi (far ground, white headscarf) in their fields where they grow 11 different types of crops.

As you can see, supporting the Good Little Company translates into so much more than providing meals to the hungry. With your backing we are helping to lift people out of bitter poverty and hunger, ensuring farmers like Kesten can grow enough to make a profit and improve the lives of their families for good – so thankyou!