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Empowering the developing world
with opportunity, not handouts

Friend,

Mahatma Ghandi once said, “An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.”

At CFACT, we believe these words ring true – which is why we try to put them into “practice” when advancing our free market, conservative ideals.

For years, CFACT has helped promote responsible environmental stewardship practices – consistent with our conservative, market-oriented philosophy – that benefit both people and planet. Some of these projects have included efforts to help lions, assist threatened wildlife, grow food, and grapple with poverty and hopelessness.

Through its “CFACT Stewardship” project, the Committee empowers people in the developing world to use their creative energy to better their lot. These initiatives aren’t handouts or charity; CFACT provides grants and guidance to entrepreneurs looking to better themselves and their communities with a product or service with strict benchmarks that must be met along the way.

We’ve been doing this for decades, steadily building upon the program’s successes.

One such project is in Uganda. It involves a person named Kimuli who first began working with CFACT in 2015. Initially, Kimuli proposed building a piggery in the town of Gombere, Uganda. After a year of hard work, his piggery unfortunately had to close because of security issues (pigs were being stolen) and disease.

He then went to university and came out to give it another try, this time a bit wiser for the experience. In 2019, he approached CFACT again with a project idea to start a new piggery operation – this time in a better location. CFACT granted him a second chance, and it worked. Today Kimuli has over 20 pigs and is on course to achieve his goal of 50-75 new animals in the summer of 2021.

You can watch the video he produced thanking CFACT and proudly showcasing his pig farm here.

This small project is just the tip of the iceberg. CFACT believes that by helping people help themselves, our movement gets big dividends. Though the Left “talks” about helping people (typically by closing the businesses that hire them) we at CFACT prefer to walk the walk and actually do something meaningful.

Kimuli is already excited about showing others how he has become successful. Expect to see many good things flow out of this one little project.

Our movement must heed what Ghandi said. It is not enough to simply expose what the Left is doing and explain why it’s wrong. Those of us in the free market, sound science community need to meet people where they are and show them a better way.

At CFACT, we plan on continuing to do that – even while we battle the forces that would make Kimuli’s and our own world a darker place.

For nature and people too, 

 
Craig Rucker
President

 



Exploring the Mukono Village
piggery project

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