This past week I was able to visit some of the refugee gardens in Kentzou, the town just across the border into neighboring Cameroon where Pastor Boniface has been organizing agroforestry co-ops – WHERE over 20 of them attended the 3-day seminar in April at the CEFA center. I checked out a few gardens and I was very impressed with a couple of them because they had planted their cowpeas we had distributed to them not only in rows, but they composted each row as well! This is truly an amazing testimony to transforming from the old ways of slash and burn agriculture to one of conservation agriculture – a rare thing to see, but hopefully a significant breakthrough! Not only do the people believe in the importance of raising high protein beans, but they also want high yields, putting to practice new methods that CEFA has demonstrated at their model farm in CAR. Meawhile, on the very same day, same hour I was visiting these refugee gardens, the UNHCR was distributing food in a giveaway frenzie after almost 4 years since the refugees from CAR were displaced. To the contrary, the people whose gardens I visited were not interested in getting free food as they put more value on raising it themselves, with CEFA's help!
-- Roy & Aleta Danforth Covenant missionaries to the Central African Republic cell phones: Aleta 011 237 67529 5071 or 011 236 7744 8621 Roy 011 237 66171 7808 or 011 236 7754 9176 email: roy-aleta.danforth@covchurch.org blog Personal: http://blogs.covchurch.org/danforth/ blog CEFA: http://car-cefa.blogspot.com/This electronic communication, including any attached documents, may contain confidential and/or legally privileged information that is intended only for use by the recipient(s) named above. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the communication and any attachments.
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