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Home gardens can transform ‘hungry’ homes

http://www.yourcommonwealth.org/social-development/health-safety-wellbeing/home-gardens-can-transform-hungry-homes/ Growing food at home has benefits beyond providing nutritious food, writes Bhagya Wijayawardane, 28, a Correspondent from Colombo, Sri Lanka. She’s working to bring home gardens to marginalised urban residents. As part of the local effort to fight food insecurity, eliminate vitamin A deficiency and nutritional blindness, and to improve physical growth among school children and infants in Sri Lanka, I founded a community organization named ESHKOL. Today, ESHKOL implements a home gardening and nutrition education project in Sri Lanka. The initial test was carried out at my home roof top to fight boredom and continue to enjoy my food cravings after a long career break. Gradually, it turned out to be a pilot project that was intended to see whether promotion of low-cost vegetable gardens combined with nutrition education might be a viable strategy for improving the n
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What's In It For Me?

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What’s in it for me (WIIFM)? happens to be a question that drives almost every decision we make as young people in our lives from the moment we wake up to our bedtime. It guides our every action today. Besides, all the competing priorities of modern life, we often ask ourselves when someone talks about change or giving back to the community, "What's In It For You?"  This has always been the question I come across when people see the work I do in my community. Then you happen to ask yourself the same question and wish you had not asked it from you because you'll end up with the most beautiful reasons once can ever think of.  Since, humans are not as generous as the God or the Earth, I'd like to use them for an example to illustrate the meaning of the question. So, let's try to change our roles , where the environment we live in, the planet Earth we are a part of asks the question themselves, when we approach them for rain after three months of heat on our b
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