What will y o u r support look like this year?

LIBERIA

LIBERIA poorest of nations ranking 175 of 187 countries in 2014 Human Development Index 640,000 or 16% of population is food insecure 83% of population survives on less than $1.25 (USD) per day with 52% of population living on less than $.50 (USD) per day

FARMING TECHNIQUES Tools and equipment will be provided Wheelbarrows Hoes Spades Water buckets Boots Gloves Seeds (primarily vegetables) Fertilizer and pesticides Training to improve productivity

Training will include: Mounding of the soil Care of the fields Crop rotation

FARMING

Raised produce beds

Two specific communities will be targeted - Mt. Barclay & Cotton Tree

Crops that are being grown Rice Groundnuts - peanuts Radishes Tunquah – vegetable Groundnuts - peanuts Radish plants

FOOD SUSTAINABILITY

As well as the tragic loss of life that the Ebola epidemic caused, was the negative effects of the containment measures the government and medical personnel imposed to keep the virus from spreading.

These measures closed markets, placed limitations on farming, resulting in; rising food prices fear of contracting the disease loss of jobs heavy economic burden on vulnerable households incomes have decreased for 1/3 households

HEALTH EDUCATION Through the use of Health Services Flip Charts there is teaching on nutrition and communicable diseases

Food insecurity has left the country in the precarious situation of significant numbers of their population living below the poverty line and malnourished

Being one of the poorest countries in the world to start with, this has just magnified an already precarious situation!

In 2016 the WOMEN of the Canada and Bermuda Territory raised $65,000 towards our 75,000 target. WE HOPE TO RAISE $75,000 in 2017 towards supporting the Liberia project. THANK YOU FOR CONSIDERING HOW TO RAISE FUNDS IN SUPPORTING THESE PROJECTS IN LIBERIA