Project Report
| Feb 4, 2015
Training barefoot garden technicians
By Cora Sayre | Project Leader
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Training local technicians
Dear All Friends,
Warm greetings from Leyte. Our bunk-house gardening initiative is in full-swing as continue supporting gardening activities of typhoon survivors staying in the bunk-houses. We are covering the 2 bunk-houses in Palo, Leyte, 2 bunk-houses in Tacloban City and 2 in Ormoc City. The gardeners in all the bunk-houses number 753 and mostly women with their older children as the men work in the nearby fields. They are indeed very happy because neighbors come to buy vegetables from them. Some of the more enterprising are cooking their vegetables and sell it to neighbors. This is a welcome menu compared to the endless supply of noodles that they are receiving from agencies assisting them.
At our home-base in Ormoc City we produce our own organic fertilizer by collecting waste from the farms and mixing this with animal dung also from the farm. Our main strategy now is to conduct regular trainings to selected leaders we call barefoot garden technicians. These leaders will in turn become a resource person in the bunk-house imparting the knowledge learned. One of our staff regularly visits the gardeners in the bunk-houses and provide much-needed support.
Again thank you very much and hoping for your continuing support to our activities.
Very sincerely yours,
Cora
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Nov 17, 2014
Vegetable harvest season is continuing
By Cora Sayre | Project Leader
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Garden tripod
Dear All Friends,
Greetings from Leyte. A bunk-house contains several small rooms where each of the rooms entire families live, sleep, eat and do whatever they do. It is not a good place to stay but for the survivors uprooted from their previous places now declared not fit for habitation, there is no other choice. Our vegetable gardening in the bunk-houses is a great success mainly because the beneficiaries find the gardens therapeutic and good for them. The spaces around the bunk-houses were used for gardening and we support vegetable seeds, garden materials and training to the beneficiaries. Our training conducted is direct and hands-on with a little theory about plant growth and the relationship between soil, plants, sun and water. Harves of the vegetables is continuing and without let-up.
Please help advocate this laudable project to your friends and colleagues. We are planning to support 3 more bunk-houses with total 700 families. Our link is,
http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/typhoon-haiyan-bunk-houses-gardening-initiative/
Very sincerely yours,
Cora
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Sep 19, 2014
Gardens a-bloom already
By Cora Sayre | Project Leader
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Bunk-house garden in Palo, Leyte
Dear All Friends,
Greetings from Leyte. We are continuing with our gardening activities. In our previous reports, we concentrated in providing you with information regarding community preparation and capacity-building. This time and after several weeks we see a lot of gardens already. The beneficiaries are thanking the Global Giving and the WAND Foundation for the support they provided so that the gardening activities will be successful. They are starting to harvest already since some of the crops have short maturity periods. For example, kangkong (Ipomoea aquatica) a kind of leafy vegetable very delicious to eat matures in just 18 days so the bunk-house residents have access to food already rather than always noodles and rice. The typhoon survivors told us that the gardens makes them forget about the terror during the typhoon and help them clear their minds and forget about their problems. Outmost in their minds is when they will be transferred to a more permanent structure since the bunk-house rooms are very small and alll family members stay together in one small room.
May I ask for your continuing generous support so that we will be able to buy more seeds and garden tools.
Very sincerely yours,
Cora
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