Our church Advent project for 2015 will be to help our Catholic Church in Saikeri, Kenya with establishing gardens so they can grow their own food. The people in Saikeri have no experience gardening, and have no supplies to start a garden (seeds, fertilizer, greenhouse, pots, greenhouse, etc.).
Very recently, the church was able to gather enough funds to purchase a well for running water. The church needs help setting up a drip irrigation farm so that families can come and learn how to farm. To set up the initial farm will cost $3500. Once the initial area is built and established, the community will learn how to plant seeds and grow their own harvest. With this knowledge, they will then be able to set up a smaller garden for their own personal use. The cost for each individual packet is $200. Our goal is to purchase the large farm kit ($3500) and 25 farm kits at $200 each ($5000). This would put our total goal for our Advent project at $8500.
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