Caba, PH – TL family garden – 21 Jul 2013
The TL family home is located in the central area of the local mountains, about 5 kilometers away from the children’s school. The family already have... Read More
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Caba, PH – DB family garden – 21 Jul 2013
The DB family has wonderfully independent minded children who are very interested in starting a vegetable garden so that they can qualify for the vegetable garden... Read More
Utete, TZ – Parmiter’s school help school and community projects – 4 Aug 2013
The student group from Parmiter’s school in Watford, England came to Kindwitwi village to assist families with some Better Lives projects including; organic vegetable gardens,... Read More
Utete, TZ – Garden Shop update – 10 July 2013
The garden at Kindwitwi Garden Shop is growing very well! The garden beds look productive and materials are being staged nicely for the arrival of... Read More
Battambang, KH – Hot dry season challenges garden – 23 Jun 2013
YT has maintained a very productive garden that has fed the family with vegetables continuously. It was a challenge during the heat before the rains... Read More
Battambang, KH – Rains enable replanting – 26 Jun 2013
The rains have arrived and PK is replanting his garden that had suffered from lack of water during the hot and dry season before the... Read More
Battambang, KH – Team formed to make compost – 30 Jun 2013
GP and PK formed a team to produce compost during the last week of May and during June. They will make a stock of compost for... Read More
Battambang, KH – Relay planting vegetable beds – 30 Jun 2013
YY family have replanted some of their beds as part of the relay planting schedule that is designed to maintain a continuous supply of vegetables... Read More
Caba, PH – Q family garden update – 23 June 2013
The Q family started planting when the first rains came in May. They now have sufficient water supply for the garden, and are feeding their family from... Read More
Caba, PH – SO family garden update – 23 Jun 2013
Now that the rains have come the natural spring on their land provides enough water to supply the family’s needs and the garden. They reported no problems... Read More
Caba, PH – T family garden update – 23 Jun 2013
Some of the T family garden’s vegetables survived the very hot weather before the rainy season. Now that the rains have started, they are reporting no... Read More
Caba, PH – R family garden update – 23 Jun 2013
The R family reported no issues, and have started the savings program by selling 2 kilos of Eggplant 20php/kilo to the Happy Shine garden shop. They... Read More
Caba, PH – G family garden update – 23 Jun 2013
The seasonal rains have started and the Gonzales family reported no problems. They have started saving some of the money that they have earned by... Read More
Moshi, TZ – Kisangasangeni Primary garden update – 26 Jun 2013
The school garden had suffered from the flooding mainly because the school was closed for two weeks during the height of the floods. This meant... Read More
Moshi, TZ – MMC family garden update – 26 Jun 2013
Only the sweet potatoes and okra survived the floods, but they grew as tall as large saplings! Sadly, the rest of MMC’s garden was almost completely destroyed... Read More
Moshi, TZ – MK family garden update – 26 June 2013
Mr MK is a wonderfully energetic man who has a severely disabled son living with him. His garden was intact and flourishing, it seems to... Read More
Moshi, TZ – JO family garden update – 26 Jun 2013
JO’s garden was heavily damaged by the flooding in April and May, and he and his wife have started to prepare the garden for replanting, they tilled... Read More
Moshi, TZ – LK family garden update – 26 Jun 2013
LK’s family garden was completely destroyed by the floods, with all vegetables washed away. When we arrived (19 June) LK, his wife, and children were... Read More
Moshi, TZ – SA family visit – 26 Jun 2013
SA’s family garden is looking fairly good after the heavy rains. Some of the beds were destroyed during the floods but Mr SA has since then replanted four... Read More
Battambang, KH – Volunteers help make compost – 31 May 2013
Mary and Polly from UK have helped GP who is starting to collect brown and green grasses, which he uses to make good quality compost... Read More
Caba, PH – Drying moringa leaves – 1 May 2013
Michael Foster kindly volunteered to design and build a test moringa leaf dryer for Waves, as the first step towards producing a nutrition food based... Read More
Caba, PH – Compost manufacturing – 1 May 2013
The new compost manufacturing building, which Quest built, is delivering a number of quality and productivity benefits. It enables the compost piles to get hotter because of... Read More
Caba, PH – Waves Learning Center’s Phase I completed – 1 May 2013
Phase I of the Waves vocational training center is operating, with Beulong Café and Happy Shine Garden Shop start-up businesses and a clinic occupying three units on the... Read More
Caba, PH – R family visit – 21 May 2013
Cora and the Happy Shine Garden shop team visited the R family and their older daughter’s 4 month old baby who was having a nap on... Read More
Caba, PH – T family visit – 12 May 2013
Cora and the Happy Shine Garden shop team visited the T family and their five children to see how they and their garden are doing during the... Read More
Baja, MX – BCM building family homes – Sep to Dec 2012
Hector David has been working hard for the last three months from September to December, when he helped or led groups from the USA who... Read More
Dar es Salaam, TZ – Mothers receive birth certificates – 30 Apr 2013
During April, the ATD team continued to visit the different parents at the house of MA to discuss with them and organise the necessary documentation... Read More
Dar es Salaam, TZ – ATD Fourth World helps mothers register births – 31 Mar 2013
ATD (All Together for Dignity) Fourth World has been present for more than 10 years in the Tandale area of Dar es Salaam. Currently ATD... Read More
Morogoro, TZ – Water project – 31 Mar 2013
Sanitation and Water Action (SAWA) of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania has undertaken a broad front of activities during the five months from October 2012 to March... Read More
Addis Ababa, ET – Vocational Training – Jan to Mar 2013
The goal of Retrak’s Vocational Training Program in Ethiopia is to prepare children, who have been living on the streets of Addis Ababa, to make the transition back... Read More