The main goal of ALEY-NM is to empower the local youths in Mindanao, give them hope and roots in the barrios where they are living by making the barrios productive, vibrant and a repository of local knowledge at the same time improving the local biodiversity by nurturing the land in a low-external input system (as opposed to high-chemical agriculture) and incorporating crop-trees-animals in a nutrient-cycle, sustainable manner. The organization promotes ecological sanitation and the use of human waste (urine and feces) as fertilizer for the plants realizing that chemical fertilizer harms the environment and knowing that human waste contains valuable nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphate ... read more The main goal of ALEY-NM is to empower the local youths in Mindanao, give them hope and roots in the barrios where they are living by making the barrios productive, vibrant and a repository of local knowledge at the same time improving the local biodiversity by nurturing the land in a low-external input system (as opposed to high-chemical agriculture) and incorporating crop-trees-animals in a nutrient-cycle, sustainable manner. The organization promotes ecological sanitation and the use of human waste (urine and feces) as fertilizer for the plants realizing that chemical fertilizer harms the environment and knowing that human waste contains valuable nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphate ideal for food security. The ALEY-NM is a winner of the 2010 Ten Accomplished Youth Organization in the Philippines and an awardee of the "Saka" (agriculture) award by the Department of Agriculture. It is the production and marketer of SaniFert (short for sanitation-fertilizer) which is a combination of biochar, feces, effective micro-organisms urine and animal waste.
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By Jed Christian Sayre | Project Leader
Dear Friend, Thank you very much for supporting our project providing food and medical care for the youth and the elderly. This reporting period we focus our assistance to providing the youth with... Read the full report ›By Jed Christian Sayre | Project Leader
Dear Friend, Thank you very much for your donation to our project bringing happiness and hope this Christmas. Christmas season has passed and we were able to bring hope and smiles to those whom we... Read the full report ›By Jed Christian Sayre | Project Leader
Dear Friend, Thank you very much for your donation to our project helping build local homes. We continue to promote the use of bamboo as a sustainable building material since bamboo is common in our... Read the full report ›
