We work through a tiered approach to deliver training to households and OVC. DAI's staff train extension officers from local community-based organizations to provide HIV/AIDS-affected orphans and vulnerable children and their caregivers with the training and tools to develop household and school nutrition gardens, who then train gardeners. By working through CBOs, we promote greater sustainability and greater program outreach, while ensuring that local communities gain access to global best practices from DAI's 40 years of experience in agriculture. The new program which began in 2008 also promotes sustainability and self sufficiency from the start. Beneficiary gardeners work with the program for a year before moving to our transition program which prepares them for sustaining these activties into the long term. We also promote the creation of informal savings and loan groups which allow those individuals with no experience with formal financial services to gain the skills and experience in savings and lending. Especially entrepreneurial groups may later be linked with microfinance institutions who can provide longer term access and larger loans to those who have the capacity to repay.