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CARE Society and myHarvest wish to thank you once again for your precious support! Your donations (which are still coming in!) have helped them tremendously carry out their projects and have even more impact on the field.

Thanks to the funds raised, myHarvest have pursued their work with the different schools they’ve engaged with. Since last July’s gardens set up, students have had the opportunity to harvest spinach (more than a dozen times already!), radish, ladyfinger, brinjal, ridge gourd, and green chilies. Now, the time has come to plan the upcoming sowing season just in time before the academic year comes to an end. After running a workshop for them, myHarvest distributed mini-home gardening kits to 40 girl students from Perambur so they can grow spinach in their homes too.

Since last August, CARE Society has been working closely with more than 160 farmers in 7 village panchayats. Since last October, the team has conducted a dozen training programs focusing on ‘Milk animal rearing’, ‘Block gram cultivation’, ‘Asola cultivation’, ‘Farmer producer company orientation’, and ‘Bank services’ as well as a ‘Collective farming' training targeted at university students majoring in Agriculture.

Your support has been wonderful and is making a significant difference.

Thank you!

CARE Society and myHarvest wish to thank you again for your precious help! Your donations have helped them tremendously carry out their projects and have even more impact on the field.

Thanks to the funds raised, CARE Society was able to conduct a series of training sessions centered on micro-irrigation, milk animal rearing, block gram cultivation, poonkar paddy cultivation and finger millet cultivation techniques; thus reaching out to 163 beneficiaries in 7 village panchayats. Thanks to the funds received CARE Society could purchase 480 kg of seeds redistributed to a total of 66 farmers as follow:

     - 50 kg Kuthiraivalli helped 16 farmers

     - 100 kg Thinai helped 24 farmers

     - 50 kg Varaku helped 7 farmers

     - 80 kg Block gram helped 16 farmers

     - 200 kg Poonkar paddy helped 3 farmers

In the past few months, myHarvest was able to conduct 3 workshops:

     - The workshop entitled “Setting up an edible school garden” was conducted at Athangi Kavanur Government School on July 28, 2017.

     - The Workshop entitled “Growing your own food” was conducted at MCN Higher Secondary School in August 2017.

     - The Workshop entitled “Connecting closer to food” was conducted at the Chennai Corporation School in October 2017.

My Harvest will continue working with Athangi Kavanur School and support the garden initiative. They are planning on spending the remaining Rs.8,400 to add more plants and maintain the garden.

Your support has made a significant difference.

Thank you!