17th June 2013: These women in their urban garden are harvesting Rape and Chinese cabbage for the market. They have learned well and worked hard and today is pay day. It is amazing how quickly become business people and also how efficient they become. In this process they have
11th June 2013: Robert our manager of farms looks like a happy man. Harisen had just delivered 3000 packs of open pollinated seeds. They had just arrived all the way from Seed programmes, Lubbock, Texas, USA. The varieties are:Beet, Cabbage, Eggplant, Galia melon, Kale, Mustard, Okra, Onion yellow,
8th June 2013: This is one of our farming groups in the city. This is the Tiwonge Women's group. They find a piece of unused land, bring it back to life. With the help of our horticulturalist they learn how to grow vegetables, then eat and sell
15th March 2013: Maybe Irish Aid didn't know it, but this is our farm. We bought it about this time last year for a group of amazing women to become a commercial, co-operative model farm. It is now run by 16 women and 6 men with the
28th February 2013: This is becoming a real revolution. Women in villages want their kids to go to school. After clean drinking water it is, surprisingly to me, second on their wish list. We train, monitor and work with local women to be the caregivers. They are
20th February 2013: Not much but it's a big leap for them! Children in this area of Malawi go to Primary School at the age of 6, like elsewhere in Malawi. But the problem is that by then boys may be doing a full day's work making
24th January 2013: This is the Doroba Do-operative, Commercial, Model farm run by 16 women and 6 men. We facilitated the purchase of 22 acres of land early last year and by the year end about 25% of the loan had been paid off. This shown lemon
6th January 2013: This is Robert and Benidicto transplanting lemon seedlings grown on the co-operative farm in Doroba. We gave the women there a contract to grow 3000 for us to enable them to pay back their loan on the 22 acre farm that we bought
1st January 2013: This is a village where we worked with a women's cluster to build a preschool. Our deal with them is that the whole community get involved, make and build the bricks, supply the timber and do all the work. We only supply the metal for
27th November 2012: Trying to tame the wilderness is the job in hand. This is part of a women's group working on a 23 acre model, co-operative, commercial farm which Wells for Zoë purchased earlier this year with a plan for them to repay the money in
22nd November 2012: The picture shows one of our Adult Education/Self Help groups at work in a little common space between their houses. On our last visit we came up with a plan to help them with gardens and also the schools with school-gardens. Managing a problem!! Alinipher who
7th May 2012: This was probably the most serious village conference I've been at so far. It took place in the Chief's village of Ukani and was attended by the nine village headmen in the area. I have never seen so many old women together before and