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Tanzania Tanzania: the grape comes from solidarity


Agricultural Cooperative's commitment to the children of the Woodshed "Village of Hope in Dodoma

From a bunch of solidarity 'grapes for the children of the "Village of Hope in Dodoma. And 'one of the last achievements of the Tanzania Project, sponsored by the Agricultural Cooperative Woodshed, historical reality of Florence, in collaboration with the non-profit organization of Pangea Scandicci and Friends of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood and the Colleges of Agriculture, University of Florence, to support the structure missionary hospital of Saint Gaspar Itigi, actually a symbol of battered African country.

"In early June - says David Bocciolini, president of the Agricultural Cooperative Woodshed - there will be the first official harvest. It 's a pilot project started a couple of years ago with the planting of more than 500 vine plants to produce table grapes, mostly of the variety "Cardinal", "Italy" and "Queen", and the results were excellent. Doubt was also linked to children's reactions a result that did not know, but it was fine. The estimate, given the different climatic conditions than in the UK, you can do at least two harvests a year, helping to enrich and vary the diet of young guests of the Village. "

The recent trip to Tanzania, which took part Bocciolini, Alberto Lanzi, an agronomist of the Cooperative, and Professor Riccardo Bozzi, livestock, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Florence, it served to review the progress of the project and allocation of € 53 000 collected in 2008 for his development.

"In the Village of Hope - continues Bocciolini - is going well the cultivation of vegetables. Where once there was dry land, there are now kale, chard em'cicia, a vegetable to be cooked, and soon there will be new plants, peppers, eggplants and tomatoes. Itigi hospital has been put into production at the citrus grove, after pruning fitoiatrici and interventions, as well as the 24 olive trees we planted have responded well and acclimatization in 2011 should be the first crop. We only lost two plants to attacks by termites, but have already been replaced. Small steps to improve the quality of food self-sufficiency and promote agro-food industry of the two structures, thanks the work of Daniele Di Martino, an agronomist who is following the initiative in the field, with the help of Mariano Galla, a hearing care, Faculty of Agriculture. "

THE PROJECT The Project
Tanzania, the Agricultural Cooperative's Woodshed is committed 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 a portion of loyalty points and discounts obtained by purchasing in the shops of the Cooperative. The initiative, sponsored by the Cooperative, in cooperation with the non-profit organization of Pangea 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 of the Precious Blood of Christ and the Adoration Sisters of the Blood of Christ are now playing for years in the country Africa. 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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