Farming and Economic Independence.

The Coins of Hope farm is managed as a cooperative by the parents of the students at the COH school, growing corn, cassava, beans, and soya. Next to the guesthouse, another five acres serves as a demonstration field to learn mixed cropping and crop rotation with pumpkin, beans, sweet potatoes, peanuts, onions and a variety of vegetables.

Mpoyi residents grow their own food, and farming is the main occupation in the region. However, people use a simple hoe as their tool, resulting in low yields, food shortages, and malnutrition. As its first project in 2010, COH provided three oxen for clearing and tilling the fields, a much-needed help to alleviate manual labor. The project teaches new planting methods, and the crops produced on the COH farm are divided among members of the cooperative, with the excess sold to earn income. Students are also taugh these new farming methods. At their homes, parents have been supported to raise chickens and rabbits. In Summer 2021, the CEPP team taught classes in nutrition to highlight the nutritional benefits of local crops that were previously ignored. In November, the project built a small depot near the main road to display crops for sale, and in August 2002 provided over 80 farming tools.