Project Report
| Sep 22, 2014
Youth-led gardening
By Cora Sayre | Project Leader
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Training the youth
Dear All Friends,
Greetings to you all and thanks so much for your generous support to our food security initiative. This is such an important innovation here in Leyte because of the multiple benefits that home-gardening provides to the survivors. The benefits include increase in income, combating malnutrition, camaraderie among the gardeners and the use of empty land spaces for the gardens. Our move now is to grow and raise our own vegetable seeds for distribution to the gardeners rather than purchasing in seed companies. The beneficiaries themselves are growing the vegetables for the seeds and we train them to let some of the vegetables to mature and then use the seeds. We are very successful with the youths because they have so much free time and they love gardening a lot. This is also a way to stop trafficking of women and girls which is becoming rampant here after the typhoon.
Again, thank you very much and hoping for your continuing support. Kindly inform your friends and colleagues about us and hoping that they too will be able to help us..
Very sincerely yours,
Cora
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Aug 7, 2014
Seeking permanency in Leyte
By Cora Sayre | Project Leader
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Training Center in Leyte
Dear Friends and Partners,
Warmest greetings and thank you very much for your continuing support to our activities assisting Typhoon Haiyan survivors in Leyte. I am happy to report to you that we are making excellent progress and we plan to stay here for the next 3-5 years as the situation is still dire and needs a lot of our help. This time our food security initiative is given a big boos by the generous support of a donor who provided us with a modest training center. The training center is multi-purpose in that we will use this also not only in the conduct of vegetable gardening training but also on the sorting and production of vegetable seeds and planting materials. Right now we have 4 open-pollinated vegetable seeds growing and later we will use the seeds for distribution to local farmers.
Hoping for your continuing support to our initiative.
Very sincerely yours,
Cora
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Jun 2, 2014
Continuous Food Supply
By Cora Sayre | Project Leader
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Food via gardening
Dear All Friends,
Warm greetings from typhoon-ravaged Leyte. The weather this time is very hot and crops are dying but there is a promise of rain coming with clouds forming in the sky. They are predicting that the El Nino phenomenon will last until end of this year and we are praying that this will not be so. Farmers are readying their fields for the planting season and the few gardeners who have constant supply of water to water their plants either from deep wells or springs are able to have bountiful harvest. It is indeed amazing to observe poor typhoon survivors no longer depending on food aid but getting their food from their backyards. One of their strategy is to sell some of the vegetables in order to buy rice staples and to cook some of the vegetables and add this to salted or dried fish. In this way hunger is no longer an issue for them. This time we are planning to continue and expand our initiative by providing the beneficiaries with organic fertilizer that we ourselves are producing as well as providing them with high-valued vegetable seeds, seeds whose produce they can sell at high price. These are tomato, eggplant, legumes, bitter-gourd, among others. This time also we are linking with a nearby university, Visayas State University which is a leading agricultural school in the area for technology and extension support as we realize that we cannot really do this alone but we need a lot of help.
Hoping for your continuing support.
Very sincerely yours,
Cora Sayre
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