Recently the Committee met with 3 World Vision representatives, who were able to give us some interesting feedback. The Rain Water Harvesting project we are currently supporting is focussing on training at present. 300 out of the target group of 840 households have now received training and are using the roof-to-garden watering system. A further 150 families have also implemented trench gardening and will be the next to receive the training and materials to harvest roof run-off. These gardens are producing sufficient vegetables for the families to sell produce on the local market, bringing in some income to support the family. More importantly, having the vegetables to include in their diets is contributing to the reduction of malnutrition which in turn means people are a bit more resilient to HIV.
In addition to the family gardens, nine communal gardens have been established, which supply vegetables to the Orphan and Vulnerable Children feeding schemes and also have sufficient to be sold.
We thought news like this would be a great Christmas present for Choko supporters! Thank you so much for your contributions to this success.
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Friday, December 10, 2010
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