We were growing sesame and peanuts when Educo decided to help us, after seeing the work we were women in Burkina doing and despite the limited means we had,” Sawadogo from the Nabonswendé women’s association, who participates in our community garden project in the province of Yatenga. We started working with them four years ago, although this group of women had already started gardening in , but their production was very limited. Our support has consisted of training classes and support to get them started . “We mainly grow onions and some vegetables such as sorrel, which we use a lot for cooking.
This gardening work that we do allows us to contribute enormously
To our children’s studies since with the money we earn, we can buy them all the materials they need and cover their school expenses in addition to providing them with healthy food when they go to school. At the Australia WhatsApp Number Data family level, this extra income allows us to help with the purchase of food when our husbands cannot support the family. We cover the need,” says Sawadogo. In addition, we have also built several wells , with the help of the community, and we have given them several lots of seeds to help diversify production. Sawadogo tells us how they made a living before working in the orchards: “Our life was difficult. We worked panning for gold to support ourselves and often the family.
Sometimes we even sold small sweets
To earn a little money, but it was never easy. But since the creation of the garden, we no longer go anywhere. We work full time cultivating in this place safely with our children. I want to thank Educo for helping women Canada WhatsApp Number List get out of their vulnerability . The garden activities help us enormously. Our project wants to improve the capacity of households to meet the basic nutritional needs of children. Thus, thanks to common gardens, the agricultural production of vulnerable households is increase by exploiting several hectares of unused land so that they have, at least, an additional source of monetary income and the diversification of agricultural production for the prevention of malnutrition.
