companies coached in depth
Each processor gets an audit, an action plan, on-site visits and follow-up calls. A stronger processor buys more from farmers and employs more people.
Our impact
We want more people to eat safe, nutritious food, and small food processors to grow into businesses that give fair work. By 2030 we aim to coach 300 of them in depth.
Our 2030 goals
These are goals for 2030, not results.
enterprises trained on food safety
Unsafe food makes people ill and wastes the nutrition it carries. Training builds safe practice. Certification proves it, and opens the door to buyers who ask for it.
companies with better working conditions
We help processors improve health and safety, pay and compliance, with a focus on women and young people.
companies selling to premium markets
Better markets pay more, and the extra income helps pay for better practice. We start with the EU.
Jobs for women and young people
Africa has more young people than jobs. Food processing creates work close to where food is grown. We help processors build businesses that women and young people want to work in and can grow with. We also develop business ideas that fit what young people aspire to, such as agri-services, trading and horticulture, and give women and youth a clear path to a better income. When women earn, their families benefit.
A note from Kerry
“If it was easy it would be done.”
When we started Sense, I wanted donor money to end up in businesses that could stand on their own. What I have seen since is that one processor can change a lot around it. It buys from more farmers. It hires more people. More families end up eating food they can trust. That ripple is what keeps me at this.
We can only measure the first ring ourselves, which is the enterprises we work with. So that is what we publish, and we keep the numbers small and true. The effects on farmers, workers and their families matter just as much. We look for them wherever we can, and we will share them once we can show them.
Kerry Kyd, senior partner and co-founder
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