Helping Haitians help themselves is what our Agricultural Training Center (ATC) is doing! The ATC is planning a new three-week residential training and internship program where villagers can be sponsored to come live, train and work at the ATC. Our first Sustainable Agriculture Extension Training session is tentatively scheduled for mid-June and we already have one sponsored villager attending! We need three more sponsors to help us send other poor villagers to this wonderful training opportunity.

This training will teach these remote villagers methods of sustainable gardening for their families and their village, including such things as how to make compost, making homemade fertilizers and insecticides, using drip irrigation, seed saving, soil preparation, water conservation, and even making “gardens” without soil. Each successful graduate from this program will receive vegetable garden seeds from Hope Seeds, drip irrigation kits from Chapin Living Waters and a set of basic garden tools from Z23 to take back to their villages. Please contact Rad Hazelip or Mike Sullivan at the Love A Child office at 239-210-6107 to learn more about how $725 will sponsor a villager for this important “food for life” opportunity.