PROJECT – The Association of Locally Empowered Youth

Health and Nutrition of Children and Youth Initiative

In our work, we found out that the growing of vegetables is one of the best way wherein the health and nutrition of children and their families are boosted. This is because vegetables are easy to grow, there is also the availability of organic manure that families can use in order to fertilize their crops.Continue reading “Health and Nutrition of Children and Youth Initiative”

Youth Regenerative Agriculture

Training and engaging the youth to undertake permaculture or regenerative agriculture. The farming population is aging and the youth is not encouraged to engage in farming finding it not attractive financially. They opt to find work in the cities and with their skills not fitted for jobs in the cities, they end up more destitute.Continue reading “Youth Regenerative Agriculture”

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”

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”

Mindanao Ecolife Cafe

The Mindanao Ecolife Café is organized with the main aim of bringing the power of the web to positively affect the lives of poor and marginalized youth. The youth are very vulnerable to climate change and are mired in poverty and joblessness and the web has a wealth of solutions for job creation and linking withContinue reading “Mindanao Ecolife Cafe”