Make a Resolution to change a life

With Christmas over and 1 January fast approaching, many of you may be thinking about your New Year's resolutions.

Perhaps you would like to cut down on the fast food, or maybe even cut your spending.

Or perhaps you would like to make a resolution that will not only help others but will also give you that ulitmate feel good factor.

Farm Africa, a charity that works with farmers in Africa to help them produce food, has some great resolution suggestions that will benefit those in need.

Your New Year's resolution could be something as simple as hosting a coffee morning or as adventurous as climbing Mount Kilimanjaro!

By supporting these great activites you are also helping others tick off their New Year's Resolutions. Many would like to see more food available in 2014, and your activity could enable that to happen.

In 2013 a whole hoast of activities took place to help the people of Africa. Some of these included a ten day drive to London from Cape Town, guessing how many Lambs a Ram would father and a triathalon ran by visually impared twins.

All of these activites raised vital funds for the people of Africa and your New Year's resolution could do the same.

Leonila is a sesame farmer who is looking forward to 2014 with a sense of hope thanks to new specialist seeds that she - along with 1,000 fellow farmers in the Babati region of Tanzania – have received from Farm Africa.

The new seeds can help farmers to increase their harvests by 150% when compared to the older seeds traditionally used in the area.

And for families like Leonila’s, this can make all the difference between struggling just to buy enough food, and being able to pay for medical costs and school fees so that her children can have the education she never had.

She is therefore eager to get some of the new seeds as soon as they are available. And thanks to the new seeds - as well as farming training she has already received from Farm Africa - Leonila is now busy transforming her family’s fortunes. She is busy coming up with ambitious plans for producing larger, healthier sesame harvests that will earn her enough money to give her children the education that, until now, has remained out of reach.

To find out how you can help others to make a life-changing resolution this New Year, please visit: http://www.farmafrica.org/get-involved/