MDG7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability
Posts about MDG7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability
Masasi Farmers make charcoal from agricultural waste using ARTI technology
Wed, 2008/12/31 - 18:21 —'One cluck at a time' adoption scheme! Adopt a chicken
'One cluck at a time' adoption scheme! Adopt a chicken is a new scheme for people to adopt a chicken for a year at $4 dollars each, (£3/or 3 euros).
People who wish to adopt a chicken or chickens can contact me regarding payment to Help Heal and they will receive a certificate via email with a photograph attached. You can name the chicken or chickens. You will receive a report on their progress in 6 months time.
Small-scale Farming Project Plan: Training
The goal of the Small-scale Farming Project Plan task is to make a practical and well-founded plan for a school garden that provides the most essential food for the school children. The third phase in achieving our goal is to develop training material for the children and teachers. Our core project team (http://www.nabuur.com/en/user/marte/profile) in this work need help to create and complete the following information:
* Recommend methods about how the schoolchildren be involved in the gardening
Small-scale Farming Project Plan: Implementation
The goal of the Small-scale Farming Project Plan task is to make a practical and well-founded plan for a school garden that provides the most essential food for the school children. The second phase in achieving our goal is to develop a school garden in the following manner:
* Recommend a list of simple, cheap, sustainable, small-scale crops to the CBSM group, as well as low-tech agricultural techniques
* Recommend methods about how the schoolchildren be involved in the gardening
* Plan and implement a school garden at the CBSM school
Small-scale Farming Project Plan: Research
The goal of the Small-scale Farming Project Plan task is to make a practical and well-founded plan for a school garden that provides the most essential food for the school children. The first phase in o achieving this is to do the following research:
• Analyse which crops are suitable (regarding to nutritional values, soil, water, climate, resistance against illnesses, costs, yields etc.)
• Research the Nabuur forum, (e.g., Khaparapada), for discussions about organic farming, no digging, no tilling, no outside inputs, permanent beds, drip irrigation etc.
Analysis of School Nutritional Program
The first step of our CBSM Nutrition and School Garden Project is to analyse the current CBSM nutritional program offered to the children of the school and establish what,
• Improvements needed to the quality of food
• Deficits exist in nutritional program
• Improvements to the quantity of food per child per day could be achieved
• Methods would be more efficient and be procured at lower costs
This work results in a pdf document for publication on Nabuur and the CBSM Nutrition and School Garden Project website and a PowerPoint presentation published on Slidshare website.
Organising and Supervising the Kimilili Clean Water Project
The work in Kimilili Clean Water Project is as follows:
- Identifying locations of a new water sources, either spring or well (they must serve more than ten families)
- If spring water, reconstruct or reroute water to enable sufficient drainage of water
- Build reservoir
- If well water, drill down to the water source
- Install a water pumping engine
- Install pipes so the water can flow freely
Edit and Write Content for the Website
Over the last several months, Tejanath has been working with a website developer based in Kathmandu to establish a website featuring information about the Sankhuwasabha district of Nepal. The website is located here:
For this task, we are looking for volunteers to provide editing support, and also volunteers to help Tejanath write content for the website. What type of information would be useful in terms of making the website a successful marketing tool?
