By Cora Sayre | Project Leader
Dear Friends,
Greetings and thank you very much for your support to provide food security to poor earthquake survivors in Nepal. This time we were able to reach-out and distribute together with local and international volunteers vegetable seeds and garden tools to 120 families located in Tigani village in Bhaktapur District, 45 minutes by public transport east of Kathmandu. Most of the residents are traditional farmers while a few are government workers and some engaged in the private sector. The vegetable seeds and mustard leaf, bitter gourd, carrots, ladies fingers and beans. The garden tools are mainly wooden rod dibble and sprinkler.
In this village, only 40% of the families own the land, the rest has to lease and pay the landowners up to 20% of their annual farm income. They earn about 4000-5000 rupees per month, and have to rely on middlemen to sell their produce as most of them don’t have any marketing idea. After the earthquake, 65% of the houses were totally destroyed and aside from a few concrete houses, the rest were partially damaged.
Again thank you very much.
Very sincerely yours,
Cora
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