Plant a Garden: When you choose 'Plant a Garden', your gift helps plant a garden in the African Country of Zambia. The funds will be used to purchase seedlings, fertilizer, water, tools, and to pay a stipend to a gardener in our Tikondane program. It costs about $50 to start one garden, but any amount is welcomed. Tikondane means ‘Love One Another' in the local Nyanja language. The gardeners plant vegetables in backyards in the Ngombe Compound, an extremely poor urban slum. The produce grown in the gardens provides life-saving food and nutrition to large households of 8 to 10 family members. The stipends earned by the gardeners help support their own families. Their jobs are to plant, tend, water, and harvest the produce for the first two growing seasons while training the residents to be self-sufficient in caring for their gardens after that. The gardens really do make a huge difference.