Inception of Seeds for the Future project .

1. It began in 2023 under RAFUG as kitchen gardens tied to child reparations accounts. The idea was an Afrocentric view of decentralizing power into women using women care groups for future generations. 

2. It moved to Nigeria, Tanzania, and Kenya in the forms of school supplies, agroforestry, and school fees, respectively, all tied to a birth and developmental equity reparations under Esther Afolaranmi's work at the UN: https://fairstartmovement.org/fair-start-file-update-to-un-human-rights-council-petition-our-overriding-right-to-nature-and-equity/

3. Next month RAFUG will launch a policy effort in India, showing how it could save countless lives. 

 Seeds For the future began in early 2023 under Rejoice Africa Foundation as kitchen gardens, agroforestry, women sensitization on family planning and doing child saving in responding to wealthy redistribution, signs of climate crisis and family planning policies. We used Afrocentric model of Women Care groups with decentralization system.    

Rejoice Africa Foundation got passion not to let others out in doing seeds for the future and we formed a unique coalition of organizations from Nigeria, Kenya and Tanzania and now initiating in India which share one common goal: To change family planning systems to prioritize a just distribution of resources to ensure all children are born and raised in conditions that reflect the ideals of the Children’s Rights Convention, both ecologically and socially. This has become especially challenging given the horrific impact of the climate crisis on children, even before they are born. However, the climate crisis is also an opportunity to pivot towards just and equitable family planning, given the move towards reparations from wealthy nations to the Global South, the

Growing number of studies that show the efficacy of investing in young women as a means of

Reaching sustainable development goals, and the impact of ensuring direct funding to young

Women as a means of building their communities. Investing directly in children works, and is

Increasingly part of regenerative planning.

Unlike most other nongovernmental organizations, our coalition believes the Cairo Consensus on population and development is outdated and does not adequately address the two greatest threats to our future: The climate crisis, and massive economic inequality driven by family policies, both in the United States and abroad. Rejoice Africa and its partners have developed specific baselines for the compensation required to address these issues.

Fundamental justice means changing the way we plan our families and raise our children.

Our response is to introduce seeds for the future and equitable family model, which better reflects the International human rights regime and its commitment to self-determination. This model is now the subject of several successful peer-reviews, and dozens of positive articles in news outlets around the world. It is consistent with the calls by leadership at the United Nations for changes to population and development policies so that rather than counting people, we are working to make each child count. The formula for child-centric families is simple: Parental delay and readiness, a fair distribution of opportunities for all children, and a universal ethic of smaller families. Reparations and focus them on the birthright entitlements of the majority of people: Those who will live in the future.

 The Cairo Consensus helped create the climate crisis and massive inequity and heaps the costs of climate change on those who are least responsible for it. Improving upon it will result in balanced ecosystems, and equal opportunities in life. The crises we face today could have been avoided with a more ecocentric family planning system, one truly compliant with the Children’s Convention