CARE is Implementing Food Security Project
Translated from Al-Hayat Al-Jadida Newspaper
Tuesday, 12 February 2008
Page 7
Ramallah. Al-Hayat Al-Jadida. CARE announced that it completed training for 130 men and women in the field of food processing, in addition to 82 women and 48 men who were trained on the topics 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 offers help to 140 poor families in the Jenin and Toubas areas namely in Jaba’, Fandakoumieyh, and Tayaseer.
The project is being implemented in the northern part of the West Bank, and in the northern and central parts of Gaza. Activates in the West Bank consist of distributing sheep, sheds, feed to 130 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 1000 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 be trained in food processing, beekeeping, greenhouse management, and administration of sheep farms and rabbits.
The project is being 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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