Project Report
| Feb 16, 2017
Turmeric harvesting
By Cora Sayre | Project Leader
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Turmeric harvest
Dear Friend,
Warm greetings and thank you very much for your continuing support to provide continuous supply of vegetables to our beneficiaries. This time we have already an initial harvest of turmeric roots from plantings done last year. We intend to let a women's association process the turmeric into powder and capsules for sale in the local market. Turmeric roots will also be sold raw and is used as spice in food. Some of the harvest we will use to replant in order to increase production by our beneficiaries.
Again thank you very much for your generous support to this initiative.
With much gratitude,
Cora
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Nov 25, 2016
Turmeric production and processing
By Cora Sayre | Project Leader
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Turmeric production
Dear Friends and Supporters,
Greetings and thank you very much for your continuing support for our project to provide food security for poor families in Leyte. Most of the families living in bunk-houses have now moved to more permanent albeit low-cost houses built by numerous donors and we continue supporting them with garden seeds and tools in order to augment their food and incomes. The garden initiative as we trained them before mainly consist of using recycled containers in the backyard and using seeds from local vegetables growing in the area. Organic fertilizer comes from animal dung and kitchen waste. This reporting period, we introduced to 35 families the growing of turmeric in recycled sacks and containers with the aim of processing the turmeric into capsules and powder. A women's group that we organized and based in Albuera municipality will purchase the raw turmeric roots and process them. Turmeric powder and capsules is in high demand here because of its touted medicinal properties and supply is always low while demand is high.
Again, thank you very much and hoping for your continuing support to this project.
Very sincerely yours,
Cora
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Aug 29, 2016
Garden training is continuing
By Cora Sayre | Project Leader
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Training women on gardening skills
Dear Friends,
Greetings from Leyte and thank you very much for your continuing support to provide food security to typhoon survivors via vegetable gardening. One of the lessons that we got from this initiative is that gardening is indeed very beneficial for the local residents and once they get the skills to do it, they are not easily forgotten and practice is easy. The good thing is that the seeds for every planting season is sourced from their garden plots and there is no need to buy the seeds. The main choice is okra, string beans, squash, eggplant and tomato. At this time, most of the produce is used for consumption and very little for the market.
This reporting period we were able to train a total of 115 gardeners most of them women. We found out in this initiative that women are more keen to do gardening perhaps because most of them are housewives.
Again thank you very much for your kind support to this project.
Very sincerely yours,
Cora
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