{"id":9603,"date":"2025-10-26T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kids-of-africa.com\/?p=9603"},"modified":"2025-10-22T14:01:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T12:01:41","slug":"sowing-cultivating-harvesting-how-your-support-bears-fruit-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kids-of-africa.com\/en\/sowing-cultivating-harvesting-how-your-support-bears-fruit-every-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Sowing. Cultivating. Harvesting. How your support bears fruit \u2013 every day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dear friends,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We all know the time for sowing and the time for harvesting. The image came to mind as I watched the lovely short video of our farm:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"S\u00e4en, Pflegen, Ernten \u2013 Farmarbeit mit Kids of Africa (Uganda)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n2mYRIavRdA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You know, when I spoke to our prot\u00e9g\u00e9s in Uganda recently, that saying came to mind. We have invested a lot of time and love in all of our prot\u00e9g\u00e9s. And that&#8217;s a good thing. &#8220;Never stop believing&#8221; is the daily refrain of our work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hard work of sowing is followed by the joy of harvesting. But it takes time, care and patience. The grass doesn&#8217;t grow faster if we pull on it. That&#8217;s fine too. But after the summer, we can harvest. A day of celebration. And then it starts all over again. The cycle of life.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"549\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kids-of-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/farm_01.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kids-of-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/farm_01.png 549w, https:\/\/www.kids-of-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/farm_01-300x219.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Our prot\u00e9g\u00e9s carry on the spirit of Kids of Africa. Because no man is an island. They too sow seeds. They do this, for example, when they work on the farm. They also do this by becoming role models for others. They start doing this as early as kindergarten age. It is a gift to quietly observe them doing this. A gift that you, dear friends, make possible with your important help <a href=\"https:\/\/donate.raisenow.io\/shdhd?lng=en\"><strong>(yes, we are currently particularly dependent on it).<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"549\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kids-of-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/farm_02.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kids-of-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/farm_02.png 549w, https:\/\/www.kids-of-africa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/farm_02-300x219.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Back to our farm: it delights the stomach and the soul. The work brings people together, shapes them, creates jobs and gives meaning. This is how we do &#8220;child labour&#8221;: hand in hand, together and at leisure. We sow and we reap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you for helping our prot\u00e9g\u00e9s!<br>With best wishes for your Sunday, always yours, Burkhard Varnholt<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button custom-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/donate.raisenow.io\/shdhd?lng=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Support Kids of Africa now<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brief, touching insight into our small farm in Uganda: our younger and older charges lend a hand \u2013 from sowing to harvesting. The cycle of life becomes tangible: time, care and patience lead to the shared joy of the harvest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein-en","category-portrait-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kids-of-africa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kids-of-africa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kids-of-africa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kids-of-africa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kids-of-africa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kids-of-africa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9604,"href":"https:\/\/www.kids-of-africa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9603\/revisions\/9604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kids-of-africa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kids-of-africa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kids-of-africa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kids-of-africa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}