By Evelind Schecter | Program Manager
As 2020 came to an end, and the rains have come, the trainers in Malawi took a break to let the farmers get their crops planted.
Since June, when the teams went back out after the initial COVID lockdown, they have trained over 3000 farmers in Malawi (2100) and Kenya (900)
There were 70 training sessions with both men and women who came to learn how to make biochar from field waste, how to make fertilizer with the biochar, and how to improve their animal health by adding biochar to the feed. As subsistence farmers in one of the poorest countries in the world, using biochar will provide long term benefits to the soil.
For now, the farmers are rejuvenating their soils and reaping the benefits of the biochar they make.
As COVID struck, your support provided sewing machines and an egg incubator for Sister Miriam Paulette in Malawi. The masks have gone to the community and to the groups doing biochar training, to stay safety compliant.
The egg incubator has produced over 200 chicks and the nuns are putting biochar in their feed. They are thriving and Sister has been giving them out to children and their families in need. There is widespread hunger and the chickens provide the families with food or cash for school fees.
Your support of this project has made a huge and lasting impact on those being served. Given the knowledge of how to make and use biochar will continue to improve individual lives, increase crops for better food security, and helps remove smoke from the air, which is a benefit to everyone.
With deep gratitude,
Dana, Evelind, Michael, and the Malawi Biochar Team
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