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Guru Krupa Foundation Renews Anisha Kitchen Garden Project

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Susila Dharma USA is proud and happy to report that Project Anisha has received the second year of funding for its Kitchen Garden Project from the Guru Krupa Foundation based in New York state. The Foundation has given another grant of $10,000 to Anisha this year to continue its four-year educational project to teach over 1400 middle school students to grow organic kitchen gardens at their homes.

The Kitchen Garden Project at Anisha teaches families to grow small-scale kitchen gardens, producing organic vegetables from native seeds. This can make a significant difference in their health and standard of living.

These students live in the Martalli Region of Karnataka State in Southern India. Their families, often single-parent, struggle every day with extreme poverty and everything that results from it. They live in a drought-prone area that is also hard-hit by the effects of climate change. Learning to grow small-scale kitchen gardens producing organic vegetables grown from native seeds (initially supplied by Anisha’s native seed bank) can make a significant difference in improving the standard of living in this area. It can help to stem the flow of farming families that are forced to abandon their homes in India’s countryside and move into the dumping grounds of India’s big city slums.

We are so appreciative of the support provided by the Guru Krupa Foundation to help Anisha do its vitally important work! Please visit their website to learn about their impressive work in both the United States and India – www.guru-krupa.org.

You can read more about Anisha on our web site and see a slide presentation about the Kitchen Garden Project below.

Yayasan Usaha Mulia (YUM)

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Indonesia

During the massive forest fires in Kalimantan, YUM distributed haze masks and oxygen
During the massive forest fires in Kalimantan, YUM distributed haze masks and oxygen

Yayasan Usaha Mulia, known as YUM, is an umbrella charity that oversees numerous humanitarian initiatives in Indonesia, including:

  • Children’s Village Orphanage,
  • Preparatory Schools operating in slum areas,
  • Indonesia Relief & Development Network providing food, microcredit, supplies, and education to families in crisis,
  • Clean Water Projects for communities, building wells and reservoirs, and training local citizens to manage the facilities, and
  • Teunom Preschool, a collaboration that has rebuilt an Aceh preschool destroyed by the 2004 tsunami.
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Usaha Mulia Abadi (UMA)

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Mexico

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Usaha Mulia Abadi (UMA) means “Noble and Eternal Effort.” The name was given by Bapak, and UMA’s mission is to preserve Bapak’s vision: “to support the development of skills, knowledge and comprehension, and recognize the manifest potential of children and youth in an atmosphere of harmony and respect.”

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Yayasan Tambuhak Sinta (YTS)

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Indonesia

Using participatory rural appraisal techniques, YTS helps villagers create a Community Development Plan
Using participatory rural appraisal techniques, YTS helps villagers create a Community Development Plan

YTS began working in the seven villages of Bukit Batu in 2009. Using participatory rural appraisal techniques, we assisted each community in the sub-district to make a village development plan, and started providing an annual village development fund to support local livelihoods. The project has identified two livelihood opportunities that show much promise for the development of successful micro-enterprises, these are fish-farming and chicken-raising. In both cases, profitability is limited by the high cost of material inputs, primarily for feed. To overcome this barrier, YTS wishes to provide strategic support to the seven communities by providing training and equipment to manufacture feed from local sources. In 2013, we wish to provide each community with appropriate technology and training in order to enable them to operate local fish and chicken feed-production centers in each village.

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