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

3. LIBERIA

4. LIBERIA poorest of nations
ranking 175 of 187 countries in 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

5. 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

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

7. FARMING

8. Raised produce beds

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

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

11. FOOD SUSTAINABILITY

12. 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.

13. 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

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

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

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

17. 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 towards supporting the Liberia project.
THANK YOU FOR CONSIDERING HOW TO RAISE FUNDS IN SUPPORTING THESE PROJECTS IN LIBERIA