18th March 2018: The picture shows a maize crop on the worst soil imaginable. Local Maize seed, No inorganic fertilizer and no noxious chemical. Doesn't look much but there is magic happening here. Climate change is an issue for all of us, whether we are believers in Global...
17th March 2018: This is our new building at our Centre for Learning. Downstairs we have two new classrooms and some storage for the Horticulture people. Upstairs we have a space where people can come and stay, like: Women who come to do training or pump maintenance or Preschool...
16th March 2018: Rose Reported: [vc_column_text el_class="indent-message"] Boss, We went to the Bishop's with Alfred and Benjamin for two reasons: to measure the well dug to find 21 metres deep. Next week we will install one of our pumps to see how it works at 21 meters Secondly I went to...
14th March 2018: At the moment we support 58 preschools, mainly by holding workshops and doing training in co-operation with the Department of Social Care. If communities decide to build a school then we assist with metal sheets for the roof. The rest they can manage themselves We...
10th March 2018: Even though it was raining heavily so many girls made their way to class. They work so hard to learn. Such determination would put the rest of us to shame. Even though we collect them our transport is mostly open....
9th March 2018: It is our intention that ALL our staff learn to type and learn about the basics on Word, Excel and emailing. Here are Prominence and Fatima updating the pump installation database. Regularly when people come looking for jobs we offer them a chance to learn...
8th March 2018: This is Martina placing tephrosia leaves around the growing Maize. This is our favourite super plant. We grow thousands of trees of tephrosia. At this stage of the growth of the maize plants, when they are flowering, as they say, a covering of Urea (an...
3rd March 2018: We support 258 girls in Secondary school. As a result of seriously overcrowded classrooms (up to and over 100 sometimes), poor buildings, inadequately trained and paid teachers and much more, we decided 4 years ago to collect these girls from far distant places each...
27th February 2018: At the end of last year we got a donation of some, open pollinated, tomato seeds from Irish Seed Savers. We planted some in our greenhouse at the factory and others ourdoors. Prominence reports: [vc_column_text el_class="indent-message"] Hi Boss FROM: Prominence At the moment we have 5 varieties of tomatoes...
26th February 2018: This is Angelina planting Sweet Potato in our factory garden. Last year we decided to bring our horticulture to the Centre for Learning which is over an acre around the factory. The idea is to teach our girls who come for extra tuition at weekends...
25th February, 2018: They have never thought of having a pump in the village. People have been drinking unsafe water from open wells and rivers for many years. This time WfZ team have installed a pump in the village, so many people are happy and thankful for the...
24th February, 2018: Open wells are sources of water in this area. People drink unsafe water from this source. This causes them to be suffering from waterborne diseases like diarrhoea. Now people are extremely happy for the donation of clean and safe water. The other problem is that,...