Friday, December 28, 2007

How Long Does It Take For Bonjela To Work

News from Balaka

La forte pioggia, i continui temporali, hanno messo in difficoltà la parabola satellitare con la quale tutta la missione di Balaka comunica con il mondo attraverso internet.Il mancato aggiornamento del blog è dovuto esclusivamente a questo.Portandovi i saluti di Alessandro e Valeria ed i loro auguri per l'anno che si sta aprendo, ricordo che anche le comunicazioni telefoniche are hard these days and that the line through which you can communicate is that the House of Volunteers; sms to mobile phones usually arrive correctly.

Greetings to all. Luca BETELLI

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

If You Have A Miscarriage Are You More Fertile

Get Up Stand Up (Project)

Development of actions to combat poverty in the district of Balaka: development of a business network, rural development and food security support to small farmers in the district (Southern Region, Malawi)

PRESENTATION Promoter

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Let's Cooperative Youth Trust, PO BOX 314 - Balaka (Malawi)

presentation of

Project Title
Get Up Stand Up

Development of actions to combat poverty in the district of Balaka: development enterprise network, rural development and food security support to small farmers in the district (Southern Region, Malawi)

Town and Country intervention
Balaka District, Southern Region, Malawi

Expected duration
36 months

Other agencies involved
The Cooperative Varco (Italy)
CISL - Bergamo (Italy)

beginning and conclusion of the activities planned
November 2007 / November 2009 (3 successive agricultural seasons)

Subject initiative
This action is a three-year project (3 successive agricultural seasons) rural development aims to enhance, improve and diversify production farming, in the Balaka District, Southern Region of Malawi, in order to ensure self-sufficiency (safety) food to 1,320 families belonging to the most vulnerable sector of the population.

In the long term the project will:

• Develop an economic system with the size of the network
• Reducing poverty in the project area within a framework of sustainable development,
• Improving environmental conditions,
• Increase and improve the level of participation of women in agricultural activities.

The main activities undertaken include:

a. Let's leadership training and coaching Youth Unions in structuring intervention

b. training for farmers, men and women, in order to improve knowledge of local farming techniques,

c. Implementation of activities aimed at the preservation and increase of soil fertility (compost, zero burning, planting of native tree species to atmospheric nitrogen fixation and consequent contribution to the field),

The project will be Implemented by Youth Unions Come Balaka in partnership with 21 churches (parishes) scattered throughout the territory of Balaka District and in cooperation with members of the Cooperativa Sociale Il Varco and CISL in Bergamo.

Friday, December 14, 2007

Fido Message Center Number Windsor

Wishes and hopes

Under the same sky waiting for the same water as our fertile land, we make it flourish and multiply the seed that becomes flour and food for our children. All of our children.
With this desire comes the agricultural project supported by the Association of Notaries of Bergamo Onlus. In collaboration with the Montfort Fathers present in Balaka, Malawi, with the management of the Youth Cooperative Trust Come and supervision of the cooperative The social Varco of Bergamo in the next three years will develop actions to support the different stages that characterize the production of maize in the villages of Balaka. Soil preparation, fertilization, planting, care in the growth, harvest. With the local population to support their indefatigable hope, sharing the hardships and responsibilities in the growth of the younger generation. And the sky above
mama Africa must do its part, giving us plenty of water.

BETELLI Luca - The Varco