The idea of a Farmers’ Clubs is a nation wide mobilization of small scale farmers in a progressive production move towards prosperity.
The present global strategy for feeding the people has failed. Another strategy is a must for the majority of the people. Such a strategy must include the many millions of small scale farmer families in the third world. It must include these farmers as producers of own food, of food to the local market place and, with time, as producers to the national and global market. It must include these farmers as a dynamo of development of their own countries and for the world.
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The tiles were dirty and cold. The snow carried by the boots of the hurried passengers filthy melted in the diffuse layer on the whole length of the cold corridor. A guy with a floor cleaning machine was struggling without any chance to remove the dirty water from it. I searched some drier spots and seemingly untouched by steps of the travelers that were transiting the room.
On the 6th of December we arrived after a very long train ride from Ankara Turkey to Tabriz Iran. Our host, Asad and his friend BAmeen picked us up at the train station in less than 30 minutes. Soon after we arrived a bunch of their friends arrived at their place and we soon started talking about everything. Iranians are mostly curious about how their country is perceived in other parts of the world. We approached various topics, but the one that stayed with us during the entire travel was the Islamic political regime and its restrictions. There seems to be a huge gap between the younger population and the very intolerant political government. Iran, unlike other countries has a supreme leader who is the religious representative of Islam and who is also the most powerful person in the state. Therefore the President has limited power and the Islamic form of government dominates democracy.
Golden Cut Report
A Romanian writer said once that living is like driving a car, you always have to use the windshield, to look forward, and to progress, but sometimes you have to look through the mirrors, see what you’ve accomplished, what you can improve, and always share. This is what I will try to do now, look back a little bit, but suddenly my thoughts go to a place that not so long ago I used to call home. I remember reading the reports from previous DIs in Hornsjo, and being curious about their adventures, their experiences, their stories, and the stories of the people they’ve met. Introduction:
The AWCs are focusing on the children from the slum areas with a very poor background that are forced by circumstances to contribute to their families economy (collecting plastic, rubber, paper etc.) or selling fruits/vegetable in the market. Most of the time their parents are illiterate migrant workers with a main objective: earn some money and then go back in their villages. Because the children don’t have any kind of documentation (they have documents but for their own villages not for the new states in where they are residents now) it is impossible to be registered in a government school. Visiting FED
(Foundation for Education and Development- Grassroots HRE) Our travel period is not only about seeing the places, it’s more about knowing the people, their customs and traditions, finding out about their problems, the educational system quality in their countries and health system – simplified, it’s about understanding South Eastern Asia. According to our investigation plan we wanted to visit a NGO in Southern Thailand. Why? Because we found out about the problems that the Burmese refugee are dealing with and we decided to see the matter in detail. We contacted FED and as we got a very quick reply we traveled from East Thailand to the West, to Khao Lak where the organization has most projects. The day full of surprises
Well, our day didn’t start with a positive move because as we arrived very early in Vientiane from Luang Prabang we had to face the mood of a Lao lady upset, we think so, that we sit on the table that she was going to sell. She started to scream and to grab our things to throw them. I read that is very hard to make Lao people angry but seems like we succeed very well, the sad part is that we don’t know the reason. Banana Farm 2
When we saw first banana farm we said that we should find out more about practicalities in a plantation. So we did, we went to visit the second banana plantation and worked for two days with local people. I would like to start describing the way from our guesthouse to the plantation. The first day started at 6.30 am when the tak-tak (full with workers) came to pick us up. The funny thing was that there weren’t only 15 workers but also three piles of boxes (lots of them!). Our backpacks went in the top of the boxes and we squeezed among the workers. Mathare Slum- fighting with the poor
Mathare is one of the biggest slums in East Africa and the oldest in Kenya, counting officially around 70.000 inhabitants and still expanding, but in the community the rumors are that the population is around 500.000 living in around 25.000 households. Situated only 5 km from the center of Nairobi, a part of the world that nobody remembers, Mathare is bursting with dirt, poverty, overcrowd, misery, nevertheless life. |
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