Our mission is to scale irrigation across Africa, enabling smallholder farmers to achieve food and income security quickly, cost-effectively and sustainably. KickStart is a non-profit social enterprise with the mission to lift millions of people out of poverty with our high quality, low cost technologies. KickStart is a non-profit social enterprise committed to fighting poverty, increasing food security, and building resilience to climate change for smallholder farmers across sub-Saharan Africa. Over 290,000 farmers have adopted KickStart's high-quality, affordable, and innovative irrigation technologies to start profitable agribusinesses. These businesses have gone on to produce enough fruits and vegetables to feed over 15 million people every year, and generate $200 million in new profits and farm wages annually - dissolving circumstances of poverty for 1.5 million people. KickStart invests in tools that best meet the needs of enterprising farmers by increasing their agricultural productivity and household incomes, while ensuring environmental sustainability.