Please help Warm Heart meet the twin promises of greater food security and children trained as organic farmers. Last year, we posted "Smart Young Farmers" to train our kids. They flourished. In June Airbnb donated funds to support the growth of our learning community. Climate change and drought, however, now threaten our kids' gardens. Warm Heart needs a new well and irrigation system dedicated to agriculture and our food security. Will you join Airbnb and Warm Heart as we reach for our goals?
Thailand is getting hotter and drying out around us. As we are trying to increase our food security, our neighbors' crops are shriveling in the fields. Wells are sucking dry. Whole villages are running out of water. When our rain water harvesting tanks ran dry in April, we depended on the local government water truck to cook, wash clothes and use the toilet. No matter how smart our "Smart Young Farmers" are, they, too, have watched their yields shrink without watering.
Luckily for us, a June donation by Airbnb laid the foundation for a solution: a better water system. We need your help to complete funding the project they made possible. We need a new well dedicated to an irrigation system for bigger and richer gardens. This water would free our existing water system to supply nothing but our daily needs and would permit our "Smart Young Farmers" to expand their successful gardens dramatically and improve our food security.
A new irrigation system will have far reaching impacts at Warm Heart. It will ensure that our current water systems continue to supply our daily needs into the future. Despite drought, it will make possible the expansion of our gardens and improve the quality of food we serve to our children at meals and our food security (critical in itself and for the budget). It will keep the farming program for our kids going and maybe open the door to include additional children from the community.
