Warm greetings and thank you very much for your generous support to our project providing pump-priming assistance to coconut-based women entrepreneurs. This initiative is gaining traction as our barrios are mostly coconut-producing and with planting distance of 10 meters x 10 meters, there is a lot of agro-economic activity that can be done in order…
The project is aimed at providing common service facility for small-scale farmers living in the interior of Naawan and neighboring Manticao municipalities who are engaged in growing cacao, coffee, corn and turmeric. These farm products are readily available, however farm-gate prices are controlled by middlemen and are very low. Shelf-life of farm products is also…
Vegetables are needed by the body. Vegetables are full of vitamins and minerals. Many Filipinos are deficient in vegetable consumption even if vegetables are easy to grow. The average consumption of Filipinos of green leafy vegetables is 12.4 kilos while our body needs 32.4 kilos (Food Nutrition and Research Institute data). The main reason why…
MANILA, Philippines — The Water, Agroforestry, Nutrition and Development (WAND)Foundation in the Philippines recently bagged the 2011 Raanan Weitz InternationalCompetition on Integrated Development Projects held at the Weitz Center forDevelopment Studies in Rehovot, Israel. According to the Philippine Embassy in Tel Aviv, Elmer V. Sayre and Jed Christian Z.Sayre of the WAND Foundation received the…
On behalf of The Tech Museum, it is my pleasure to notify you that WAND has been selected for recognition as a laureate by The Tech Awards in the Environment category. This is a tremendous honor, and we celebrate your accomplishment. Our panel of judges, assembled by the Center for Science, Technology, and Society at…
The Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Program of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (the “Foundation”) is pleased to award the Water, Agroforestry, Nutrition and Development Foundation, Incorporated a one-time project support grant in the amount of US $100,000 for the period from May 1, 2011 to October 31, 2012. The purpose of the grant is…