A home garden for Mama Florence

Florence is a single mother who had been struggling to feed her young son as well as her other children. She was enrolled in the Gardens for Health program at her health center this past season when a community health worker identified her son with malnutrition. She has since and since been an incredibly active and inspiring participant of our program. She hasn’t missed a single training, despite the long distance to the health center each week. She says that she has learned a lot from the training, particularly in terms of providing balanced meals that help her support her children’s growth. Before, she did not know that green vegetables held any value, now she tries to include them every day.

With your support, we have provided her with seeds for her home garden, where she has planted leafy greens, orange sweet potatoes, maize, beans, avocado and passion fruit on the small space of land next to her home, and she most recently received two chickens. Her love and commitment to her children is inspiring and we, in turn, are inspired by your assistance in helping her access the resources she needs to fully support them. Thank you.