a New Twist

I am beyond excited to share with you all that my initial goal for my mission working with Lazarus Community has been declared!  Through these last few weeks, as I apologize for the delay in posting, I have been working towards truly finding my place among these beautiful people.  Ensuring sustainability has always been my motive but now, ah, I have seen the light.  My goal which I would love for you to all be a part of, and which you will be through your already generous contributions, is to purchase a plot of land for Lazarus.

Lazarus Community

Through practical training and consulting on how to properly manage their own personal gardens as well as a Community garden, we hope to address the problem of low production of both food and income.  As part of our program involving income generating, the founders and members of the Community are working towards purchasing land to begin harvesting their own garden.  This is now my number one priority.  I would like you all to know that my prayer is to have raised enough money to purchase land through fundraising and hopeful donation from an organization for which I am applying. We, the founders, believe that in order to uplift the standard of living for the members of Lazarus Community finding a way to provide a sufficient way of impacting their lives is through agriculture and food production.  As our overall mission the founders of Lazarus Community are working to help the women sustain for themselves and their children/grandchildren.  In March 2011 ten of our grannies were sponsored by St. Francis Health Care Center to tour a 7 acre demonstration garden (Katende Harambe, Rural-Urban Training Centre) integrating management and processing involving crop farming and rearing livestock (cows, pigs, and goats).   This opportunity allowed the women to take notes on how to begin their own personal garden as well as how to manage a larger piece of land as well as to ask questions to increase their understanding of the training session.  Touring the 7 acre garden truly empowered the women and instilled hopes that they too have the potential to manage such crops and livestock to positively impact generations to come.   

Much love to you always,
Anne Therese