Getting Ahead of Debt and Disappointments
April 6, 2020
Joining the Nepal Jahada program’s vegetable farming group was the beginning of the end of Mr. Hembram’s overwhelming burdens. With a family of seven depending on him (including his wife, […]
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Community Success is Personal Happiness
April 1, 2020
Right about the time Angelina and her family were going through very tough times, local partner ADIP arrived in their community with an offer of training and support. Angelina says, […]
Villagers Take Ownership of Much-Needed Infrastructure Project
March 31, 2020
A “participatory” or collaborative approach to problem solving has resulted in a huge savings on the construction of an irrigation system. The village of Tan Ong has only a small […]
Conservation Agriculture Reclaims Worn Out Land
Thanks to conservation agriculture (CA) practices like mulching and applying manure, Justus, 26, is producing beans and eggplants on “worn out” land that had been abandoned by his parents. In […]
Training Leaders Makes Communities Stronger
March 30, 2020
While all of local partner AMC’s workshops bring a great deal of value to Matagalpa communities, for Raúl the most immediately useful one was on Leadership. A young father of […]
Learning New Ways to Grow Vegetables at the Farmer Field School
ACJ’s Farmer Field School is a place where farmers can learn and practice climate-smart agriculture techniques with their peers, and then take those practices home to use for their own […]
Animal Raising Initiatives Bring New Opportunity
The field staff of local partner Proyecto Aldea Global has been busy giving training sessions of up to 40 hours each to 45 new program participants in six communities. They […]
Changing the Farming Methods of the Whole Village
March 27, 2020
Bhubneswar has the life he’d dreamed of. He is now earning a living as a Private Service Provider (PSP) – a cross between a university extension agent in the U.S. […]
Fishing and Farming for Food and Greater Income
A basic tenet of Growing Hope is to support food security programs that align with community needs and realities. This “Fishing and Farming” project (the first of its kind for […]
Increasing Farmers’ Resilience in the Face of Climate Disruption in Mozambique
March 11, 2020
Estela’s field of cassava was the only one of six in her community that survived the drought. Some said she was just lucky, but she and local partner Anglican Diocese […]