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Improving production through good practices

“ Nothing is better than agriculture.” said Mr. KOLO IPANGA, Beneficiary of the BUREKA project.

Mr. KOLO IPANGA, from the of maize and cowpea seed- Today I harvest between one and two

Kamonia health zone, in the lings after long and arduous bags of cowpeas and more than 4.5

KAMABONZA health area, work. bags of maize. This excellent produc-

is 38 years old and married We only harvested two basins tion provides food for my family for

to Mrs. Nadine KOLO; Fa- of maize and one basin of cow- many months, part of which I sell to

ther of 5 children: NGALULA pea; I was disappointed that earn money to deposit weekly in VSLAs

KOLO, 17-year-old daughter; farming was not assisting me and pay my children’s school fees, and

HUPOWO KOLO 14-year-old in better supporting my fami- another part of which I save for next

son; MPUYI LIPASA KOLO ly. season’s seed. Right now, I have food

8-year-old son; Mamie KOLO at home, and my family and I eat more

6-year-old girl and Lyly KOLO ADRA provided us with identi- than twice a day.

1 year old girl. fication when he first arrived

They are beneficiaries of the in the community and, at one In this regard, I am truly grateful for

BUREKA Project in the food point, several food distribu- ADRA’s assistance in my life and in the

distribution sector; VSLA and tions; he brought us corn, oil, lives of my family; I thank you from the

Agriculture because they are beans, and salt. bottom of my heart for saving us from

from the village of Muasamba death, and we ask you not to abandon

in KAMABONZA. Nothing is better than farming; us, to continue to assist us because we

After a while, ADRA brought are not yet fully recovered.

When the war came to our us maize, cowpeas, vegetable

village, we were forced to flee seeds, and agricultural tools.

into the forest with our fam- To assist us in improving our

ilies. As a result of our dis- agricultural activities that

placement, we left all our be- were not performing well.

longings in our homes, and

the armed groups pursuing us Thanks to ADRA, we now know

destroyed the doors and took how to seed in rows, weed at

everything we owned. Life be- the appropriate times, rotate

came bitter after our return, our crops, and clear the for-

and even finding food became ests from around our fields to

difficult; with my children, we fight pests and other illnesses.

sometimes slept without even

having anything to eat; we We have applied these train-

were living a life of suffering. ings to our respective fields. I

We didn’t have access to good used strategies I had acquired

seeds and didn’t know how to from ADRA’s lessons in my

sow in order, so we sowed in 0.5-hectare field. Mr. KOLO IPANGA and his wife

disorder and production was Nadine KOLO harvesting corn

very low; in a 0.5-hectare field

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