Break Near-starvation Cycle for Congolese Farmers

THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE BEAUTIFUL

This report is from a recent letter from Jacques Mwinkeu, Chief Agronomist with CTD, our Congolese NGO, in his own words. Mwinkeu is also the local director and lead agronomist for Break Near-starvation Cycle for Congolese Farmers. Especially note the final comment from Mr. Mwinkeu. This success is due to YOU. Thank you for your continued support.

Good news from the Kafubu Valley of Democratic Republic of Congo

“Sixty-one families were supervised in 2020. There have been eleven new families entering the program in 2021. Twenty-eight families are run by women (widows and divorced). Thirty-four new hectares of corn and six of cabbage and other vegetables.

“In 2019, 61 families had repaid their loans, and 26 families partially repaid. Zero families have not repaid in 2019.”

Bad news from Lubumbashi, the second largest city in DRC, near Kafubu Valley

“The malady of Covid-19 has taken over forcefully here at home. The schools are closed. There is curfew decreed throughout the country, so there is no traffic from 8:00PM. Three days ago, our city of Lubumbashi was on alert, following a threat of attack of armed secessionist militiamen from Bakata Katanga. In addition to that, there are many cases of armed robbery and night burglary followed by assassinations this past time in Lubumbashi.”

Beautiful news from the Kafubu Valley of Democratic Republic of Congo

“As far as our work to note, we distributed the fertilizers and corn seed of hybrid variety 604. Currently everyone is in the application phase of Npk fertilizer because the seeding was done without fertilizer. All the time, outside the maize growing program, we will make a large vegetable growing program with the villagers from March, according to their demands because the vegetable crops are making a lot of money compared to maize. These villagers have mastered the farming technique we teach.”