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Youth and Permaculture

Supporting youth who are undertaking permaculture or regenerative agriculture activities. We are trying our best to advocate to the youth the practice of permaculture because the possibility of income spread is wide as opposed to monocrop agriculture which is the common practice. We are facing an uphill struggle in promoting this because the mind-set ofContinue reading “Youth and Permaculture”

Assisting Children with Disabilities

To support our initiative assisting children with disabilities. We thank too our numerous off-line donors and supporters whom we also acknowledge in our blog since we cannot thank them in this site. This reporting period we focus our support to the provision of food supply by means of vegetable gardening in the home. We includedContinue reading “Assisting Children with Disabilities”

Iskolar Ko Ng ALEY

To support our initiative sending a child to school and providing them a singular gift for life. Education is often the only way wherein poor families will be able to rise-up from poverty but without the needed resources, attaining a good education is often only a dream. There is a need to provide for resourcesContinue reading “Iskolar Ko Ng ALEY”

ALEY During Covid

The Covid-19 pandemic has added a challenge to our team, aside from the multiple issues of youth neglect in the villages, low income, climate change and decimation of our biodiversity. Thanks to our local and on-line supporters, we continue to provide much-needed services to our target areas in Leyte province and in Misamis Oriental. ThisContinue reading “ALEY During Covid”

Revisiting Our Goals

Our goal is to empower the local youths, give them hope and roots in the barrios where they are living by making the barrios productive, vibrant and a repository of local knowledge at the same time improving the local biodiversity by nurturing the land in a low-external input system (as opposed to high-chemical agriculture) andContinue reading “Revisiting Our Goals”

New Manual from the WAND Foundation

Our partner, the Water, Agroforestry, Nutrition and Development (WAND) Foundation has published a new manual titled “Ecosan-based Tree Planting Guide: The WAND Foundation Experience.” This publication details our experience using humanure from the dry toilets into tree growing activities with small farmers as partners in the endeavor. The problems of biodiversity loss, poverty and deteriorationContinue reading “New Manual from the WAND Foundation”

Eco-Pee, Rain and Grey-water Conservation and Vegetable Gardening Initiative

The ALEY-NM started as a loose group of like-minded youths concerned about the deteriorating environment, poverty and the lack of opportunities in the rural areas especially in the uplands where soil erosion, low soil fertility, lack of water and erratic climatic conditions makes life very difficult. Several ALEY-NM heroes started the initiative and to mentionContinue reading “Eco-Pee, Rain and Grey-water Conservation and Vegetable Gardening Initiative”

Disadvantaged Urban Youth Entrepreneurship, Organic Vegetable Production, Food Processing and Marketing Project

Disadvantaged Urban Youth Entrepreneurship, Organic Vegetable Production, Food Processing and Marketing Project Overall long-term goal Entrepreneurship among disadvantaged youths focusing on producing vegetables using vermi-compost, simple hydrophonics and containers, food processing and marketing the product and then organizing the beneficiaries so that they are able to manage, sustain and expand the best practices with theContinue reading “Disadvantaged Urban Youth Entrepreneurship, Organic Vegetable Production, Food Processing and Marketing Project”

PINOY YOUTH RECEIVES INTL AWARD FOR TURNING HUMAN WASTE INTO FERTILIZER

For his innovative community project that teaches youths how to turn human waste into high-grade, organic fertilizer, a Filipino youth — Jed Christian Sayre — received the award from the International Youth Foundation (IYF). According to a news release of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), Sayre, a councilor of Libertad town in Misamis Oriental, wasContinue reading “PINOY YOUTH RECEIVES INTL AWARD FOR TURNING HUMAN WASTE INTO FERTILIZER”

GIVING BACK TO MOTHER EARTH

MANILA, Philippines — The fertile soil of the Philippines has always been an asset to its progress and economy. Valuable crops like rice and sugar, or fruits like mango and banana are just some of the products the country produces for local and international markets. Even families in the rural areas recognize this natural advantageContinue reading “GIVING BACK TO MOTHER EARTH”