By Margaret Vallejo | Development Manager
We are so pleased to report that last year, with your help, we trained 82 village women in the Ouelessebougou Alliance Women’s Training Garden. These women were trained on using natural composting methods, increasing their crop production, and incorporating their garden produce into their family’s diets.
Our new program year starts in July and we are excited to continue our important work in the training garden while also starting outreach to other villages.
The Alliance is building a new school in the village of Famana and this new school will include a school garden and large chicken coop. The school kids, teaching staff and parents will learn the same lessons taught in the women’s garden. Instilling these practices at a young age will positively impact not only these kids, but their families as well. In the chicken coop, kids will learn how to care for chickens and incorporate eggs into their diets.
We know that having a well-balanced and healthy diet is essential to children’s mental and physical development. We also know that having a guaranteed food source combined with close proximity to village huts, helps keeps kids in school longer.
Your support this past year has made huge strides in providing sustainable methods of healthy food production and we are thankful for your continued to support as we aim to educate the next generation. We couldn’t do this without you!
Iniche!
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