CARE is Implementing Food Security Project in the West Bank and Gaza
Translated from Al-Quds Newspaper
Tuesday, 12 February 2008
Page 25
Jerusalem. From Al-Quds private correspondent. CARE has just completed training for 130 men and women in the field of food processing. Moreover, 82 women and 48 men received training in farm and sheep administration. Each beneficiary attended 30 hours of training in food processing, and 35 hours in administration of sheep farms. Training is part of the sheep farm management that is offering help to 140 poor families in the Jenin and Toubas areas namely Jaba’, Fandakoumieyh, and Tayaseer.
The project is implemented in the northern part of the West Bank, and in the northern and central parts of Gaza. Activates that are implemented in the West Bank consist of distributing sheep, sheds, feed to 130 poor families, beehives and the necessary equipment to 160 families, cheeses to 1,000 families, technical and veterinary follow-up, distributing veterinary medicine to 120 sheep growers in Al-Maleh village in the Toubas area, giving greenhouses of 70 square meters each, that will serve as home gardens, to 70 families, and helping 200 women in marketing the cheese that will be distributed to needy families.
Activities in Gaza consist of distributing rabbits, cages and feed to 400 families, rehabilitating 200 dunums of agricultural land by giving shrubs, irrigation networks, and natural fertilizers to 100 farmers, helping in the rehabilitation of 100 dunums of greenhouses owned by 100 farmers, and giving 100 families small greenhouses of 70 square meters that will serve as home gardens.
During the project period, approximately 1000 persons will attend training in food processing, beekeeping, greenhouse management, and administration of sheep farms and rabbits.
The project is implemented since September 2007, and it will last for one year. This is the seventh food security project implemented by CARE. All of CARE’s food security projects are linked and built on each other. Funding is provided by the European Commission’s Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid.
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