Help End Hunger and Malnutrition in the Comoros Islands!

Earth Rights Institute is working directly with our West Africa office to initiate our first program with the Comoros Island.  In partnership with the Government of the Comoros Islands, we have been collaborating with their Consul Mme Diaby to push forward our participation to address poverty and malnutrition in the Comoros.  We are scheduled to go sometime early 2017 for our official visit to launch our partnership.  Our first project will be to coordinate local food gardens and a garden training program for the poverty stricken villages of the Comoros Islands.  Our projects will include a nutrition training program which leads to a good healthy life.

Overview

In conjunction with the Anjouan Island government in the Comoros Islands and Earth Rights Institute, the Comoros Islands Family Food Gardens  project offers gardens, garden training programs and nutrition programs. This project is a community-led effort that empowers Comoros Island citizens with skills needed to create and sustain family food gardens and community gardens, thus providing them with necessary sustenance and nutrition.

This project will assist in achieving four United Nation's Global Goals:

Zero Hunger (#2)

Reduce food insecurity and malnutrition by providing training in sustenance farming.

Good Health and Well-Being (#3)

Educate, train, and empower local residents on good health habits, including nutrition.

Life on Land (#15)

To encourage a return to cultivation of local varieties of fruits and vegetables.

Promote sustainable, environmentally friendly gardening practices, such as crop rotation.

Responsible Consumption & Production (#12)

Facilitate the training of local residents in garden construction and the development, planning, design of programs.

To provide a model for community garden design that is socially, economically, and ecologically sustainable.

To develop a proof-of-concept for scale up replication of the model throughout the Comoros Islands.