By Cora Sayre | Project Leader
Dear All Friends,
Warm greetings from Leyte. Our bunk-house gardening initiative is in full-swing as continue supporting gardening activities of typhoon survivors staying in the bunk-houses. We are covering the 2 bunk-houses in Palo, Leyte, 2 bunk-houses in Tacloban City and 2 in Ormoc City. The gardeners in all the bunk-houses number 753 and mostly women with their older children as the men work in the nearby fields. They are indeed very happy because neighbors come to buy vegetables from them. Some of the more enterprising are cooking their vegetables and sell it to neighbors. This is a welcome menu compared to the endless supply of noodles that they are receiving from agencies assisting them.
At our home-base in Ormoc City we produce our own organic fertilizer by collecting waste from the farms and mixing this with animal dung also from the farm. Our main strategy now is to conduct regular trainings to selected leaders we call barefoot garden technicians. These leaders will in turn become a resource person in the bunk-house imparting the knowledge learned. One of our staff regularly visits the gardeners in the bunk-houses and provide much-needed support.
Again thank you very much and hoping for your continuing support to our activities.
Very sincerely yours,
Cora
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