To boost the nutritional intake of
vitamins for the inhabitants, especially the children.
The aim of the project is the following:
To boost the nutritional intake of
vitamins for the inhabitants, especially the children.
To diversify the cultures, residents
getting specialized within the years in maize and beans only
To ensure an additional income spread
on several months, which would better face the lean period, the one
preceding the harvest and generating a famine.
To gather the agriculturists in
production groups so that commercialisation would be facilitated.
To get the village known as a high
place of fruit and vegetable production.
The project is based on a local NGO, FAID Friends for Agriculture Initiatives Development) which hires me as an agriculture technician within a voluntary status. My retirement pension covers my expenses, funds are used in the three following fields :
To buy seeds, like tree plants or
vegetable seeds.
To carry those seeds.
To hire once in a while one or two
agriculture maneuvers in the demonstration plots and pay some
administrative expenses relative to the NGO.
Funding is intended for three years, period needed for the first trees to produce. This is the case of the grafted mango trees for instance or the apple trees. Seed distribution is planned in Chabima, the village I am staying in but also in a place located south of Dar es Salaam.
The strong points of the project are the following ones, as explained in the document of the presentation of the project :
The requested funding is mainly used
for investment in plants and their transportation.
The project is carried out by someone
with a long experience of development projects, fluent in English and
Swahili, well integrated in the village.
The project monitoring is technical as
well as scientific, with a research aspect, all leading to on-line
three-month period reports.
The project may be visited at all time
by contributors.
The project is part of a sustainable
development project
The project includes training and not
just supply of plants.
Reports have been published on www.nyota.org since the 1st of August.