Farmers First
In many places where you help people through ALWS nearly everyone is a farmer.
Like Pheng Rin in Cambodia. He’s the one grinning on the right there, in the middle of his field of egg-plants.
Pheng Rin has a lot of egg-plant bushes on the go right now. 300 of them! Each bears at least 5 egg-plants. And can be harvested four times a year. That’s a family’s future growing there in that field.
But when farms in places where you help through ALWS fail - because of drought or flood or war or locusts or herds of elephants trampling down fences (yes, this does happen) - these farmers have nothing. Nothing at all.
GOOD NEWS! Now you can invest in farmers like Pheng Rin, and support them to build thriving productive family farms!
Here are the ways your gift helps:
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THE HELP YOU CAN GIVE |
COST |
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Farmer Field School Train 30 farmers to increase yield, improve care of animals, manage pests and diseases, prepare soil, build fish-ponds etc. Includes Demonstration Day and Field Day plus take-home pack of vegetable seeds. Cambodia |
$192 |
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Hatch Chicken Eggs Build incubator, hatch eggs, make chicken feed, starter set of chickens, using chook poo as fertiliser. Indonesia |
$42 |
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Agricultural Training Train association of 30 farmers to diversify production for more nutritional diet. Burundi |
$48 |
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Kitchen Gardens Train households to establish kitchen gardens for vegetables to improve children’s health. Nepal |
$15 |
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Crop Seeds 8 varieties, including beans, cabbage, maize, tomatoes and carrots. Improves food security and nutrition. Mozambique |
$47 |
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Nursery Plantation Develop multi-purpose nurseries to raise seedlings for farmers. Nepal |
$235 |
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Ducks Poultry are easy to raise, and low cost to feed using local vegetation and rice. Start a business selling popular duck eggs with 9 females and one male duck. Cambodia |
$44 |
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Fruit Tree Seedlings Improve crops and family diets, and create new income stream – bananas, oranges, sugar-cane, pineapple. Sudan |
$120 |
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Water System Shallow well plus Rovai pump to provide water for home gardening, other crops and animal-raising. System can benefit 5 – 10 households. Cambodia |
$308 |
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Piglet Piglet raised using no-cost household scraps. Bred. Extra piglets returned to Pig Bank. Generate on-going income for a family. Cambodia |
$77 |
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Fish Farm Provide 100 fingerlings so farmers can stock fish-ponds and set up a fish farm. Mozambique |
$50 |
Call 1300 763 407 to donate with credit card
Post your cheque to ALWS, PO Box 488 Albury NSW 2640
“I choose to plant vegetables because this creates more income for my family. My wife takes the lead because she has training at the Farmer Field School. I am only the labour. We learnt to dig hole for planting the eggplant, and put in cow manure and rice straw for composting. Now the yield is much bigger than before. I also learn to give more water so we get more fruit and bigger fruit. With money we make we can buy rice and fish, and a little meat.”
Pheng Rin
ALWS Care Card
If you’d like to give your Farmers FIRST donation as a Mothers Day gift, and you’re giving online, write “Care Card” and the number you require in the Comments field when making your donation online. The Care Card is blank so you can use it for any occasion. Otherwise call Jen on 1300 763 407 to make your gift and order your Care Card over the phone!
It’s not the one who plants or the one who waters who is at the centre of this process but God, who makes things grow.
1 Corinthians 3:7(a) MSG
