When One Acre Fund started in Bungoma in 2006, we had 38 farmers and
just a few staff. Those staff worked directly in the field with
farmers—they didn’t need an office. Eventually, though, we needed a
place for “headquarters” functions like logistics and finance. Instead
of building an office, we rented two small rooms in a building near
town. By 2010, those two rooms were crammed with fifteen staff, and
there was no room for holding meetings or trainings.
As our operations continued to grow, we needed IT, marketing, human
resources, and internal audit staffers. In late 2010, we moved into our
first One Acre Fund headquarters building in Bungoma. It was designed to
accommodate about thirty-five staff. When we moved into the building,
Mary Ngatia, the operations manager at HQ, hung up a framed chart.
“Every thing you do can help our farmers,” it proclaimed. “What will you do today?”
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