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Life Garden Team Wins Second Place in Sustainable Development Challenge!

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Congratulations to the Immaculata Regional High School Social justice Team 2023! You won Second Place!! $ 2,000 !!

Lets give a shout out to Jessika Durose, Reine Alaji and Gabby Mercado @lifegarden2023 for all their time and effort to achieve this prize! Thank you to their dedicated teacher Mr. Grant Richard for suggesting they partner with Provision of Hope.  What a great group of students to work with! You are awesome!

Congratulations to the first place team  @betterworldclub_kelowna and the third place team @fromthegroundup2023

Thank you to Antonia DeBoer and the SDC Kelowna Team for all you contributed to make this event such a great success.  A big thank you to the donors:  Holar Developments, Impact Toolbox, Interior Savings Credit Union, Kairos Foundation, Runnalls Denby, Shauna & Sheldon Gardiner and Victor Projects.

Provision of Hope secured a donor who matched these funds! This means we have $ 4,000 CAD for Life Gardens in Liberia! We have already started on the Projects this money was designated for.

A.  Organic Agriculture Training for Hope Academy School in Ganta, Nimba County.  Practical Training to make Life Gardens. Two Teachers from the school were given scholarships to take the Thrive for Good Institute on line to become Organic Agriculture Trainers.  This is the way we plan to expand our work in Liberia.

B.  Bomi County – 3 New Farming Groups, namely Gulu Farmers, Sayjolo Farmers and Lowa Farmers. We will come with our “Growing Health Training”, Tools and Seeds to launch each group. These are farmers who already have their own managers and cooperatives in place.  They are poor, but hard working and passionate to learn about organic farming. These are groups referred by other successful farming cooperatives who have had our training.

C. Continue to supervise the 4 Groups already going strong – God’s Favor, Burphy Town, Sadayah and Domofan Farmers.

Meet the Life Garden Team, Reine Alaji, Jessika Durose, Gabby Mercado with their Social Justice Teacher Mr. Richard.
Meet the Life Garden Team, Reine Alaji, Jessika Durose, Gabby Mercado with their Social Justice Teacher Mr. Richard.
Immaculata Team presents prize money to Karen Barkman, Provision of Hope. We have already started the first project that this money was designated for. How exciting!
Immaculata Team presents prize money to Karen Barkman, Provision of Hope. We have already started the first project that this money was designated for. How exciting!
Provision of Hope presents Hope Academy School in Ganta with Seeds and Garden Tools. This is a school operated by Hope for the Nations. Our goal is to make this a model school for Organic Life Garden Training Sessions for other schools in Nimba County.
Provision of Hope presents Hope Academy School in Ganta with Seeds and Garden Tools. This is a school operated by Hope for the Nations. Our goal is to make this a model school for Organic Life Garden Training Sessions for other schools in Nimba County.
Hope Academy Students Show their " Growing Health" booklets. This is the Thrive for Good Curriculum that we use at all our Training Workshops.
Hope Academy Students Show their ” Growing Health” booklets. This is the Thrive for Good Curriculum that we use at all our Training Workshops.
Kelvin Taweh is teaching the class. They cover 1) Organic Gardening 2) Nutrition 3) Natural Medicine and 4) Income Generation.
Kelvin Taweh is teaching the class. They cover 1) Organic Gardening 2) Nutrition 3) Natural Medicine and 4) Income Generation.
John Kucuyoiyoigee one of our trainers, is teaching the students how to measure out the garden beds. Preston Gonmiah is their Agriculture Teacher. He is in the orange striped T-shirt. Preston was honored with a Thrive Institute Scholarship.
John Kucuyoiyoigee one of our trainers, is teaching the students how to measure out the garden beds. Preston Gonmiah is their Agriculture Teacher. He is in the orange striped T-shirt. Preston was honored with a Thrive Institute Scholarship.
Both girls and boys were busy participating in preparing the garden beds through double digging methods.
Both girls and boys were busy participating in preparing the garden beds through double digging methods.
Students were taking turns preparing the garden beds exactly in the methods they were taught by our trainers.
Students were taking turns preparing the garden beds exactly in the methods they were taught by our trainers.
Each garden bed is dug out then it is filled with a layer of Organic Matter. Preparing a proper garden base is vital to plant growth. Healthy soil produces healthy plants.
Each garden bed is dug out then it is filled with a layer of Organic Matter. Preparing a proper garden base is vital to plant growth. Healthy soil produces healthy plants.

Provision of Hope is looking forward to expanding our Organic Agriculture Training to other communities in Nimba County and beyond. We are getting so many invitations to come to farming groups in various rural counties of Liberia.

 Here’s a BIG THANK YOU to all our donors who give to make our work possible!

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