The Higa Ubeho ProgramEssay Preview: The Higa Ubeho ProgramReport this essayFor many Friday July 6th marked a day for them to show their peers just how far they have come and how much they had accomplished. On this Friday, on behalf of the Higa Ubeho Program, CHF and CRS hosted a Provincial Exhibition for the Farmer Field School and PD/H Phase I members who will soon graduate in August. Before the project began these members lacked proper nutrition and the ability to grow enough crops in their small plots to feed their family.

The Higa Ubeho program, with guidance from CHF and CRS, identified OVC members from twenty districts across Rwanda and brought them into the program. In the program 431 FFS schools were set up where beneficiaries were taught bio-intensive farming methods along with space efficient agricultural techniques to maximize the amount they could harvest in the limited space of their own small kitchen gardens. Beneficiaries were trained on how to plant and grow vegetables such as amaranth, carrot, beet root, spinach, onion; staple crops such as cassava, maize, and beans; and bio-fortified crops like Orange Fleshed Sweet Potatoes and Iron high Rich Beans. Once this training was complete each beneficiary was given seeds, through the help of a seed fair, to go and apply what he has learned for personal use. Each household that was involved in the program used at least 2 of the techniques taught to them in the program.

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