Award-winning Australian NGO Food Ladder has received coveted Direct Aid Program (DAP) funding from the Australian High Commission to enable the extensive role out of its custom designed hydroponic greenhouse systems to address food security and empower impoverished women throughout India.
The funding has been allocated by the DAP budget from Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, reserved for projects making huge impact and progress in crisis areas, and will be used to micro-finance 20 systems to slum communities as well as develop an online training and collaboration network that will connect women employed through Food Ladder social enterprises around the world.