Out of central Tajkistan's rocky, war-hardened soil, ADRA is constructing greenhouses and helping families in the Rasht region grow hope in an area still recovering from Tajikistan's brutal five-year civil war.
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Out of central Tajkistan's rocky, war-hardened soil, ADRA is constructing greenhouses and helping families in the Rasht region grow hope in an area still recovering from Tajikistan's brutal five-year civil war.
Each family pitches in to build its greenhouse, provided by ADRA Tajikistan with donations given to ADRA’s Original Really Useful Gift Catalog. Photo credit: ADRA Tajikistan
Since the end of Tajikistan's civil war in 1997, the region has suffered a full collapse of its economy, leaving many people struggling financially. In a region already characterized as "less developed," the civil war destroyed the region's financial infrastructure. Many of the survivors lost their homes and livelihoods in a conflict that reportedly killed at least 50,000 people and forced another 1.2 million to flee from their homes. Thousands of families were left to mourn fathers and brothers who never returned home. And when the war ended, those who remained wondered how they would survive.
The greenhouses built by ADRA Tajikistan provide an answer to that question, allowing families to grow dill, tomatoes, cucumbers, radishes, and other vegetables during the cold mountain winters.
"The home-grown vegetables enrich the families' diets, provide an income, and increase their overall wellbeing," said Victor Muhanov, project assistant for ADRA Tajikistan. "Also, children can watch the process of carrying out greenhouse agriculture and learn valuable skills and abilities that will be passed down from generation to generation."
Sanchagul and her twin daughters, Fotima and Zuhro, show off their newly constructed ADRA greenhouse. Photo credit: ADRA Tajikistan
The greenhouse project, showcased in ADRA's 2007 edition of The Original Really Useful Gift Catalog, began in June of 2007. Each greenhouse costs $1,500 dollars to build, and can be constructed in two days. So far, ADRA has been able to provide greenhouses for six families.
Sanchagul, a rather shy woman with soft brown eyes and dark, kerchief-covered hair, is the wife and mother of one of those families. Fifteen years ago Sanchagul, her husband, Mirzo, and children were a typical Tajik family. Then war broke out, filling each day with insecurity, terror, and confusion. And when a missile fired by a military helicopter destroyed their home and belongings, they were forced to join other war-displaced families in a settlement known as Pitomnik. Mirzo was able to build them a small, four-room house, and Sanchagul has done her best to make the simple house a home, with traditional rugs to warm the floors and family portraits to line the walls.
The couple and their 25-year-old son, Mirzorahim, bear deep scars from the war. Mirzo struggles with crippling states of depression caused by the trauma and horrors of the war that make it hard for him to work and provide for his family. Before the war, Mirzo enjoyed a successful career as an accountant and business manager for the Rasht region government. Now he works as a laborer working to reconstruct the local roads. But with his depression, he often is unable to work, and the family often does not have enough to eat.
Mirzorahim was a normal, healthy, 10-year-old boy when the fighting began, exposing him to the hard realities and deadly violence of conflict. Since then, he periodically battles epileptic-like seizures doctors believe were triggered by war-caused trauma. His three younger sisters, Khangoma, and twins Fotima and Zuhro, attend school in a nearby settlement, though without proper shoes the walk is often difficult, especially in the snowy winter weather.
With both her husband and her son ill, the responsibility of providing for the family has fallen squarely on Sangachul's shoulders. Like all mothers, Sanchagul wants to make sure that her family is provided for, that her children are safe and their lives easy, and that they grow healthy and happy. But without help, each day becomes a struggle to survive.
The spacious greenhouses allow families to grow a bountiful harvest of vegetables, even during the harsh winter months. Photo credit: ADRA Tajikistan
Sanchagul received a greenhouse from ADRA this past November, and is just about ready to harvest the first crop of vegetables. Mirzo and Mirzorahim enjoy working in the greenhouse, cultivating vegetables that will supplement the family's meals and be sold for much-needed supplies, such as new shoes for the girls.
Grateful for the assistance from ADRA, Sanchagul knows the hope she holds for her family's future in this rocky, war-torn land will now grow as strong and healthy as the vegetables in their new greenhouse.
ADRA's relationship with the people of the Rasht region began back in 2002, with a project that distributed wheat, sugar and oil among the people in need there. ADRA has continued working in the Rasht region, reconstructing schools, providing community development assistance, and distributing gifts to children from vulnerable families.
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Members of the Dhanawe women’s group tend to their kitchen garden
The small plane carrying me to Hudur town starts its descent into the once lush green cropland surrounding the capital of the Bakol region in south Somalia. Instead of thriving fields of millet and vegetables, though, I see scraggly, water-starved vegetation poking up through patches of sand. Scattered water wells and a few boreholes dot the ground below. The plane lands, and I step onto the Hudur airstrip. “Welcome to dry Bakol,” my colleague John Ndezwa says in welcome.
John, the project coordinator for ADRA’s Emergency Water and Livelihood Support Program (EWLSP), tells me that chronic drought conditions in southern Somalia have devastated the Bakol region and have greatly affected the ability of the agro-pastoralist communities to produce food. “Many wells are dry and those that are functioning yield water that is 50 percent below normal capacity. The locals’ dependence on water for their survival and livelihoods has threatened their ability to recover,” John explains. He adds that increased movement of livestock and people in the region has put existing water and food sources under persistent pressure, thus straining resources and creating competition and the potential for conflict at already crowded water points.
EWLSP is ADRA’s latest project in Somalia, promoting the establishment of ten kitchen gardens by women’s groups who are trained to manage the gardens. With 34,000 beneficiaries throughout Somalia to its credit, the EWLSP has brought hope to local women determined to increase their household income and diet diversity.
I set out with John and the rest of the ADRA team to explore the Bakol countryside and see how the EWLSP project is helping people in the dry, vast lands of south Somalia. We travel east from Hudur town and after a few kilometers we arrive in Dhanawe village.
A group of about 30 women—members of the Dhanawe Women’s Group—have braved the scorching sun to meet the ADRA team. With assistance from ADRA’s EWLSP project, the women have set up a kitchen garden and they are eager to tell us how the garden has changed their lives. Fifty-year-old Amino Muqtar Gudow, one of the most active members of Dhanawe women’s group, is especially anxious to share her story. “I am very grateful for this project because I now see hope of harvesting my vegetables, selling them in the market, and making enough money to fix my teeth,” says Amino, who though self-conscious about her imperfect smile, grins widely as the other women tease her good naturedly. “I have to look good to find a husband and this is a perfect opportunity for me to improve on my beauty,” she adds.
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Amino Muqtar Gudow
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From Dhanawe, the ADRA team travels to visit three other villages participating in the garden project: Farak, Garasweyne, and Tawakal. The gardens provide ample evidence that EWLSP is fulfilling its objective to strengthen and diversify livelihoods of households and communities in Bakol. More than 100 women have been trained on seed selection, soil fertility, and irrigation techniques, along with how to prepare land and plant seeds properly. Hundreds more will benefit once the additional six planned kitchen gardens are fully operational.
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“ADRA has provided us with good training on how to manage this kitchen garden and has also given us farm tools and implements, including wheelbarrows, shovels, forks, rakes, irrigation drip kits and seeds for planting,” says an elated Habiibo Aden Mumin, the chair of the Garasweyne women’s group. “We are now prepared to turn our shambas [gardens] green.”
In each of the four kitchen gardens I visited, the vegetables planted and nurtured by the women are doing well. Mano Sheikh Hussen, one of ADRA’s EWLSP community trainers, ensures the women know how to make the best use of their homegrown bounty. “The women are trained on how to cook these vegetables and taught the importance of such a diet to the family,” notes Mano, adding that the women also learn some basic principles on how to market their produce.
In Bakol, where ADRA has implemented water projects for the last six years, it was easy to see the kitchen garden project has helped to bring about another “green” revolution. With the women inspired by their garden’s success and the increased diversity in their families’ diets, hope has replaced despair. |
Vegetables in Dhanawe kitchen garden
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“I am very optimistic that once I sell the vegetables and make money to fix my teeth, I will be able to get myself a husband. Men do not like me because of my teeth, but I am now optimistic that things will be better,” concludes a joyful Amino, as she reaches for a jembe [garden hoe] and begins tending her garden.
As I hop onto the plane bound for my home base of Nairobi, the words of Amino still linger in my mind, and I smile as I think how her life is changing because of ADRA’s kitchen garden project.
Jason Nyantino is the public relations officer for ADRA Somalia.
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Pakistani trucks come in two sizes: large, fat trucks carrying a maximum of 6 tons; and small, scrappy "mountain" trucks carrying a maximum of 12 tons. Confused? Now you are beginning to understand why a truck shepherd's life is never dull.
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 Radek Spinka, ADRA Pakistan’s logistics officer on special assignment from the ADRA office in Germany, is our primary truck shepherd.
Today he will manage millions of rupees, analyzing thousands of details, making hundreds of decisions, and dialing up scores of phone calls, to put 23 trucks weighing 147 tons, on the road to Bagh.
Early on Radek runs into a potential glitch. A truck is missing. He is urgently trying to find a truck that has disappeared after it left the steel sheet factory near Peshawar. So far it has taken 30 hours to make a 7-hour trip.
Meanwhile, sprawled all over the lawns of our Rawalpindi office are 500 winterized tents that will be delivered by 10 trucks today. Additionally, he’ll send 39 huge custom-built wood-burning heaters via 1 truck. These were converted into two-burner cooking stoves designed for sixty 1,000-pound school tents, 35 of which were delivered and erected by our ADRA team in the past three days.
Rounding off the fleet are the 3 trucks filled with steel sheets, hammers, nails, saws, and shovels which left Rawalpindi at 3:00 a.m., 5:l5 a.m., and 6:40 a.m. this morning. They should be arriving at Deerkot, Bagh in a few minutes. Plus 6 trucks filled with 2,700 quilts that will be loaded this evening. Add to that 2 trucks filled with steel sheets from Mardan and you can see the logistical conundrum Radek must solve.
Radek seems to be continuously on the phone. This time he’s talking with Ismah, his counterpart in Kashmir. She is a 22-year-old, young lady, with a degree in commerce who speaks English fluently. Recently promoted, she manages to keep about 50 ADRA employees busy off-loading trucks, putting up tents, helping people erect shelters, and coordinating the trucks’s arrival times with Radek’s help.
It works like this. There are three NGOs (non-governmental organizations) in Pakistan who do nothing but provide free trucks, jeeps, mules, and helicopters to those NGOs like ADRA who are registered with the United Nations consortium.
When we have NFIs (non food items) to deliver to Kashmir, Radek calls up one of those three “transportation” NGOs, giving them 24 hours advance notice.
He gives them all the information, and they hire the trucks. Then Radek goes the extra mile, getting names of truck drivers, license plate numbers, and mobile phone numbers if possible, so he can help Ismah trace them if and when the get lost.
So far, Radek hasn’t lost one of the 118 trucks carrying 812 tons of lifesaving items you have donated with love for the Kashmiri survivors.
Guess what? Radek just informed me that Ismah called and said that the 1 lost truck has been found, and unloaded.
The shepherd of trucks has done his job today.
Click here to read our first update from Kashmir.
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For Manny and women in villages throughout Siguiri, when an ADRA vehicle arrives, it is a symbol of hope.
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We traveled endlessly over long stretches of narrow, red, dirt road that wound its way through the flatlands of West Africa. It seemed like ADRA’s vehicle was the only vehicle on the road that day. I was excited because we were headed to remote villages in the Siguiri region of the Republic of Guinea. There, visitors are rare, and I had been told that ADRA’s visit would be a joyful event.
That’s not surprising; villagers only have one opportunity each week to leave the village when the ADRA truck comes to town! Moreover, an ADRA food security project is providing hope and life to villagers.
One component of that project is economic development. By establishing income-generating activities through small loans to women’s groups, individuals are able to create opportunities for their families. Increased family income can provide adequate, nutritious food, basic medical care, clothing and education.
Each time we drove into a Malinke village, women, children and men quickly emerged from their traditional homes (round huts made of dry mud walls and thatched roofs). They greeted us warmly in Malinke, the local language, shouting, “Inekay. Tanasite [Hello. Good Morning].” When we arrived in Mankity village, it looked like the entire village had been waiting.
Mankity’s women’s group gathered around the ADRA workers. Crowding in closely behind them were husbands, children, and other interested onlookers. Dembele, an ADRA worker from that region, explained to the women how the loans work and the terms of repayment. He also shared experiences and successes of women in other villages.
Manny Keita, a member of the women’s group there, has a success story of her own. Years of hard work etched into Manny’s face, could not hide her sincere desire to do her best to provide for her family six children ages one to nine years of age.
In addition to cooking, gathering wood for the fire, cleaning her hut, and caring for her children, Manny operates a small business. Six months ago, when the women’s group in her village joined ADRA’s program, she saw an opportunity to expand. She travels to the nearest city, 48 miles away, and purchases goods, which she sells for a small profit in the local market.
Nevertheless, before she could expand her capabilities, ADRA had to teach Manny how to read,write and do simple math. Seventy-eight percent of Guinean women are illiterate. Manny knew that she needed skills to run a small business and understand how to repay a loan.
Once she “graduated,” ADRA through the women’s group provided Manny’s first loan of $100. Her immediate challenge, the distance between her village and Siguiri where she buys her goods (48 miles) was overcome. Each trip cost $8, which previously made a deep hole in her income. In addition, she could only buy a few goods.
Manny says, “I used soup, peanuts, fish, eggs and corn at my house. But because I didn’t make very much in profit, I couldn’t buy many other goods to sell. ADRA’s loan increased my cash flow, and now I have a small store in the local market.”
Manny is grateful for ADRA’s help, and her thriving business enables her to take better care of her family, and make a contribution to her community. Others in her group have also opened small shops selling soap, lamp oil, dishes, clothing and gas.
The duku tigui, or chief of the village, has expressed his appreciation of ADRA, the US government, and people of America who made helped make this possible. “The ADRA loans have helped improve many of the small businesses in Mankity.”
“Our women see there are possibilities outside their own villages. When they first see how many documents they must complete to get a loan, they are discouraged. But it also teaches them the importance of literacy. This encourages them to send their children to school.”
Most importantly, the duku tigui said ADRA’s project boosts the women’s confidence. “Just seeing ADRA’s vehicle arrive is enough for them. If someone is willing to make the long, rough trip to Mankity to visit them, then they know someone cares about them.”
Not only that, knowing that ADRA believes in their abilities and is willing to trust them with loans, is beyond anything they could ever have imagined!
For Manny and women in villages throughout Siguiri, when an ADRA vehicle arrives, it is a symbol of hope.
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The old riddle asks, “If a tree falls in the forest and there is no one there to hear it does it make a sound?
Right now millions of people are suffering silently. They are starving to death at the hands of a deadly famine that is suffocating Africa. Experts agree that there is more than enough food to feed the world’s population. So why are so many silently dying from hunger? Watch “Suffering in Silence” to learn more about hunger, famine, and ADRA’s response to this terrible tragedy.
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