Ochan Self-Help Alliance

May 19, 2009:  Members of Opac Women’s Resettlement Group want you to see the sunflower crops they planted a month ago growing well as the rainy season continues.  This self-help project began with your donations. Stay tuned for updates.

Bentokolina Agwang shows us her acre of sunflower plants

Jenty Ogwara has planted her baby pine trees with maize and beans

Joci Ading weeds her acre of sunflower plants on a misty morning.

May 2009: In soil made soft by the rainy season, these tender “greenlings” are settling in, sprouting. The women of Opac continue to work together to sow their acreages with sunflower seeds and trees.

pine seedlings surrounded by protective poles

sunflower seeds have germinated!