Project Report
| Mar 18, 2019
Producing organic fertilizer
By Cora Sayre | Project Leader
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Producing organic fertilizer
Dear Friend,
Warmest greetings and thank you for your generous support to our project supporting small business for poor entrepreneurs. The project is very crucial in improving the lives of poor families here because when they go into small business, they are able to generate value-added for their farm production. Crops especially vegetables have very low shelf-life and their prices drops down very quickly. This is a headache for farmers. One of their problems they voiced during one of our visit to them is the very high price of farming inputs especially fertilizer for their crops. During this reporting period, we trained a group of farmers to produce their own organic fertilizer for use in their own farms as well as to sell to neighboring farmers in order for them to generate income. We are fortunate to get support from the agriculture department here for the use of a heavy-duty organic waste shredder. The group aim to produce 3 tons of organic fertilizer for the market every month.
Hoping for your continuing support.
Very sincerely yours,
Cora
Dec 19, 2018
Processing of farm products for value
By Cora Sayre | Project Leader
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Spiced vinegar
Dear Friend,
Warm greetings and thank you very much for your support to our project supporting small business for poor entrepreneurs. Most often poor entrepreneurs lack the capital in order to pump-prime their business and they resort to borrowing from moneylenders at very high interest rates. Instead of improving their living conditions, they become more destitute and mired in debts that they have difficulty to pay. Our accomplishment this reporting period is that we are able to tap local resources in the area and asssist a total of 55 entrepreneurs mostly women develop their own product lines. The products that they started with are coconut vinegar from coconut water, spiced chili paste, turmeric powder, production of organic fertilizer, raising of ducks for eggs and meat and raising of chickens and goats. We designed our initiative in such a way that repayments will be used by other beneficiaries wishing to undertake or expand their own livelihoods.
Again thank you very much.
Very sincerely yours,
Cora
Sep 24, 2018
Pig raising as a lucrative business
By Cora Sayre | Project Leader
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Piglets as livelihood enterprise
Dear Friend,
Warm greetings and thank you very much for your generous support to our project providing small business for poor entrepreneurs. This project is very important because for a small support, local people here are able to be economically stable and will never go hungry again. This reporting period we provided support in terms of pig raising livelihood because pigs are economical to grow, command high price in the market and demand is always high. We provided piglets and technical training to growers so that they grow the pigs using feeds that can be found around the house. These are kitchen waste, root crops, banana trunks and legume grasses that are high in protein and nutrients. In this way they get savings and high profit margin. Some of our entrepreneurs are selling young pigs which command much higher price and are popular during fiesta celebrations. This reporting period, we are able to support a total of 15 farmers using this design.
Again thank you very much for your generosity.
Very sincerely yours,
Cora