 Global Gardeners: New Peace Corps Friends
In the last few months alone, we've provided vegetable seeds for Peace Corps gardening and nutrition programs in Swaziland, South Africa, and Zambia.
Since 1998 we've sent about 70,000 packs of seeds to Peace Corps clients in 11 additional countries: Burkina Faso, Costa Rica, Dominica, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, Jamaica, Mongolia, Nicaragua, Peru, and Senegal.
If you or someone you know is a Peace Corps Volunteer, here's a link to an easy form to express your interest in sending seeds to support your project!
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Meet One of Our Volunteers
Hi! I'm Jennifer Zelman. I've been proud to be a Seed Programs International volunteer since the spring of 2012. I enjoy having lots of variety in my work, so for SPI I've done everything from outreach to social media to data entry to graphics/artwork. It is gratifying and exciting to see the positive results of the seeds we send out into the world. I especially love pictures and stories of well-fed and smiling children! It's really nice to feel like a part of the global family.
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Seeking Seeds? Support a company that supports Seed Programs International. Find a list here. Some are focused on wholesale seed production or distribution, or sale to farmers, but if you click around, you'll find some great seeds for your home gardens, too!
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"Beet"ing Hunger in Haiti!
SPI has six current partners in Haiti, reaching at least 3,000 family gardens! Here is a link to a recipe that they might prepare with their harvest, full of delicious rooty goodness! |
2014 So Far
With your help, we've provided more than 60,000 seed packets to 9 countries. These include:
-Seeds for sustainable agriculture demonstration gardens by THARS International's program serving post-war healing among the Twa people in Burundi.
-Seeds for orphans served by the American Foundation for Children with AIDS, in Uganda.
-Seeds for the Mayan school Ak Tenamit in Rio Dulce, Guatemala, brought by Illinois Rotarians.
. . . and many more, these are just three examples of 15 shipments so far in 2014.
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