PROJECT TANZANIA: COLLECTED FROM COOPERATIVE THAN 53 THOUSAND EURO woodshed. BEGINS NEW MISSION IN AFRICA
The funds raised will be used to support the activities and experiments zootechnical the Village of Hope in Dodoma and the Hospital of St. Gaspar Itigi.
arrived in Tanzania a small dairy.
Itigi Hospital of St. Gaspar. 
Village of Hope in Dodoma solidarity again by the Agricultural Cooperative Woodshed. In 2008 they were collected more than € 53 000 in support of the Tanzania Project, sponsored by the cooperatives historic Florence in collaboration with the non-profit organization Friends of Pangea and the Missionaries of Scandicci of the Precious Blood and the Colleges of Agriculture, University of Florence, to support the activities of the Village of Hope Hospital in Dodoma and Itigi, in reality a symbol of the missionary martyred in Africa.
Approximately 30,500 € were made available by the Cooperative, that the project had allocated one per thousand of its turnover, 15,846 from the 'Friends of Woodshed', who have donated loyalty points and discounts the initiative, and by 7535 members of the rustic Florentine.
The funds for the Tanzania project, which begins its third year, will be allocated to the implementation of trials Crop and livestock farmers, to promote food self-sufficiency of the two structures and to promote new types of crops, teaching new farming techniques to local populations, in addition to the purchase of seeds, crop protection and work equipment.
In the coming months also will operate a small dairy, the Village of Hope arrived from Italy, to produce cheese intended for immediate consumption and for sale.
On March 25 a small "mission", which will also include David and Alberto Bocciolini Lanzi, president and agronomist of the Agricultural Cooperative Woodshed, and Professor Riccardo Bozzi, livestock, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Florence, will leave for Tanzania, to check the progress of the initiative.
"We are very pleased - says David Bocciolini, president of the Agricultural Cooperative Woodshed -, the funds raised have increased compared to those of 2007 and the project is progressing well. On March 25, will leave for Tanzania with a small mission to meet with Daniele Di Martino, an agronomist who is following the initiative in the field, with the help of Mariano afloat, a basketball player of the Faculty of Agriculture, Florence, and check with the development of their agricultural operations and experimentation. At this stage we are starting the production of dry rice cultivation, corn and sunflowers, along with to that of native plants and the like iatropha cajanus, a local legumes. The objective is to improve food self-sufficiency, but also to teach new farming techniques to local populations. There will also Professor Riccardo Bozzi, livestock, Faculty of Agriculture, which will review the status of cattle in the two structures, 30 and 60 in Itigi in Dodoma, to try to understand what is the best nutrition to improve milk production and to verify the possibility of putting in grass cultivation, grazing in the two areas. "
The Tanzania Project, the Agricultural Cooperative is committed to Woodshed to allocate one per thousand of its revenue to the Village of Hope hospital in Dodoma and Itigi, a figure that can be augmented by those members and 'Friends of Woodshed' that will take the initiative to make available some of the loyalty points and discounts obtained by purchasing in the shops of the Cooperative.
The initiative, sponsored by the Agricultural Cooperative Woodshed, in collaboration with Pangea Onlus Scandicci and Friends of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood and the Colleges of Agriculture, University of Florence, designed to support the activities that the fathers of the Congregation Precious Blood of Christ and the Adoration Sisters of the Blood of Christ are now playing years in the African country. Their commitment, in fact they were born the 'Village of Hope' in Dodoma, engaged in prevention, care and social support for orphans suffering from AIDS in Tanzania that plague afflicts more than 5 million people, and the hospital of St. Gaspar Itigi, one of the most modern departments of pediatrics in the country, built in an extremely poor.
The funds for the Tanzania project, which begins its third year, will be allocated to the implementation of trials Crop and livestock farmers, to promote food self-sufficiency of the two structures and to promote new types of crops, teaching new farming techniques to local populations, in addition to the purchase of seeds, crop protection and work equipment.
In the coming months also will operate a small dairy, the Village of Hope arrived from Italy, to produce cheese intended for immediate consumption and for sale.
On March 25 a small "mission", which will also include David and Alberto Bocciolini Lanzi, president and agronomist of the Agricultural Cooperative Woodshed, and Professor Riccardo Bozzi, livestock, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Florence, will leave for Tanzania, to check the progress of the initiative.
"We are very pleased - says David Bocciolini, president of the Agricultural Cooperative Woodshed -, the funds raised have increased compared to those of 2007 and the project is progressing well. On March 25, will leave for Tanzania with a small mission to meet with Daniele Di Martino, an agronomist who is following the initiative in the field, with the help of Mariano afloat, a basketball player of the Faculty of Agriculture, Florence, and check with the development of their agricultural operations and experimentation. At this stage we are starting the production of dry rice cultivation, corn and sunflowers, along with to that of native plants and the like iatropha cajanus, a local legumes. The objective is to improve food self-sufficiency, but also to teach new farming techniques to local populations. There will also Professor Riccardo Bozzi, livestock, Faculty of Agriculture, which will review the status of cattle in the two structures, 30 and 60 in Itigi in Dodoma, to try to understand what is the best nutrition to improve milk production and to verify the possibility of putting in grass cultivation, grazing in the two areas. "
PROJECT
The Tanzania Project, the Agricultural Cooperative is committed to Woodshed to allocate one per thousand of its revenue to the Village of Hope hospital in Dodoma and Itigi, a figure that can be augmented by those members and 'Friends of Woodshed' that will take the initiative to make available some of the loyalty points and discounts obtained by purchasing in the shops of the Cooperative.
The initiative, sponsored by the Agricultural Cooperative Woodshed, in collaboration with Pangea Onlus Scandicci and Friends of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood and the Colleges of Agriculture, University of Florence, designed to support the activities that the fathers of the Congregation Precious Blood of Christ and the Adoration Sisters of the Blood of Christ are now playing years in the African country. Their commitment, in fact they were born the 'Village of Hope' in Dodoma, engaged in prevention, care and social support for orphans suffering from AIDS in Tanzania that plague afflicts more than 5 million people, and the hospital of St. Gaspar Itigi, one of the most modern departments of pediatrics in the country, built in an extremely poor.
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