Getting your nonprofit off the ground can be really difficult. That’s why our Accidental Fundraiser Ayanna Nahmias went back to her home in Zimbabwe to, well, put her nonprofit in the ground. Literally.

Despite a troubling childhood, Nahmias started and runs the Zimbabwe Farm Project, soon to be Africa Vertical, a sustainable farming complex in Zimbabwe that employs women from the local community to tend organic crops. She’s overcome countless obstacles and benefited from some fortunate opportunities. Today, they’re expanding their mission beyond Zimbabwe and farming!

Learn in this episode of Accidental Fundraiser how Ayanna got her start “uplifting a nation” and how she’s literally and figuratively grown her grassroots nonprofit. Need a reminder why you do what you do? Ayanna’s story will reinspire you.