http://workingvillages.org/about/
Working Villages International is a US nonprofit organization founded in 2005, working in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Our mission is to get rural people out of poverty. We do this by investing in agricultural interventions that substantially raise farmers’ incomes. By far the most impactful intervention we have done is the building of large irrigation systems. Irrigation in the fertile Eastern Congo can increase a family’s earnings by a factor of 10. While we continue to experiment with hundreds of seed varieties and growing techniques, most of our efforts are focused on irrigation.