trobby kandala

 last time i posted a photo where i was making a fence for my garden. By Gods grace  the garden is finally doing alright, I am still facing a few challenges the biggest challenge i have is water. with the fact that i am doing gardening in a tropical region, there is high rate of evaporation and its very hard for the ground to retain water due to excess heat.  this is a picture of my maize in its early days  I started with a few crops which included okra, cucumbers sweet potatoes and krain krain which is a sierra Leone local vegetable. i am planning on using the garden as a teaching platform for agriculture to the local community by inviting the facilitators from different communities that partner with village to village federation as soon as I introduce new crops that are not in the region. some of the crops i want to introduce include swish chard, Chinese cabbage, a different variety of maize and tomatoes. and by so doing i hope to improve and balance peoples diet...

 I have been quite busy in the last couple of weeks, I have been working on my fencing my back yard garden, and getting the ground ready for planting. it was not as easy as I anticipated it would be, I had a lot of challenges with the tools and am I will still be facing these challenges. but at the same time I am glad that I managed to construct the fence to keep away our peoples livestock from getting inside. at the beginning of the week I managed to plant some cucumber seeds, tomato, okra .potato leaves vines and some other two sierra Leone local vegetables. the garden is something very strange to the community people in the area that I am staying in.  I used some wooden poles and timber for fencing to prevent the peoples sheep and goats from getting inside because at this time of the year they are allowed to move  around freely.  i am still working on getting the some more seeds to plant. thank you for keeping me in your prayers, if you wish to make a donation to ...

 I have been I sierra Leone for close to four months now, working with village to village federation gives me an opportunity to visit places and communities that most people would not want to visit. Working with the local people reminds me of my own community back in Zambia. i have always known that people already have the resources to use for their life transformation. all they need is a little push and motivation to build their confidence in what they are doing.  in the few months I have been in sierra Leone, I have spent most of the time for my work purpose, I  traveled to two different communities on a bike. The transport system here is not up to standards compared to Zambia, but by the grace of God i always make it to the communities. in the picture below i was in the middle of a forest going to one of the communities we work with to conduct a training on sex abuse and gender based violence to some of the local girls we support in school. this experience reminds me o...