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Jean, Rwanda Photo: © 2019 ADRA | Frank Spangler
“The ADRA EMBRACE project taught us new organic All these new fruits and vegetables, along with the improved
gardening techniques that have totally changed the way that gardening techniques that ADRA introduced to us have really
I do farming. I am now making all my own fertilizer increased the productivity of my farm. We are now growing
composting with the manure from my cows. We have about four times the amount of food that we used to. This has
learned what plants grow well together, how far apart to really improved our family income. I have used the new
plant, and how to make our own natural pesticides. income to invest into other income schemes like raising
chickens and growing mushrooms. I am starting to rent more
The ADRA training emphasized the importance of nutrition fields to grow more crops to further increase our income.”
and introduced all sorts of new vegetables to our community
like carrots, beets, beans, spinach, and amaranth. We have
also planted fruits like avocados, passion fruit, tree tomatoes,
and papaya.
Photo: © 2019 ADRA | Frank Spangler
