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Planting good health

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Dear .hhf,

The day we helped Afisa plant her garden was a rainy one, but we did it as a team effort, and in the rain, we planted green leafy vegetables, beans, fruit trees, beets, cabbages, and orange sweet potatoes. Afrisa is twenty eight and is a single mother of four children–her youngest son was diagnosed with severe acute malnutrition and provided with short-term food aid a few months ago.

Thanks to your support, we are helping Afisa on the path from short-term food aid, to long-term food security. We planted a small plot next to her home in addition to a terrace just below her house, which is actually quite a bit of land to grow a lot of food. Afisa also walks nearly four hours each week to her health center, where she receives training from Gardens for Health on malnutrition on various topics like family planning, gender-based violence, HIV, breastfeeding, and cooking–planting her home garden is just the beginning of our partnership. Thank you for supporting Afisa and her family to plant good health.

You can read more about planting Afisa’s garden here; that day some journalists happened to be passing through: http://itbeganinafrica.com/inspiring-people/rwanda-home-grown-solutions-scourge-malnutrition

 



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