Solidarity for Africa starts from Florence.
New mission for the Project Tanzania, initiative promoted 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 in Florence, which aims to support agricultural and livestock production Hospital and the Village of Itigi Hope in Dodoma, and to complete the construction of a basement office in the Mission Miyuji to improve the living conditions of the population.
Friday, March 12 will leave for Africa two agronomists Cooperative, Simone Tofani, director of the project started in late 2006, and Alberto Lanzi, who will have the task of checking the growth of crops and farm trials and activated at Itigi Dodoma, as well as prepare for the arrival of steel plates from Italy for the construction of new tanks in the basement of Miyuji.
the fifth mission of the Project will also participate Emanuele Camels, farmer cooperative member of Florence, and Patricia Belgodere, the Friends of the Woodshed, to allow a direct verification of the efforts made in recent years.
"We will stay in Tanzania for ten days - Simone says Tofani - to check the progress of trials and the state of crops, as well as to review any needs. In the field, under the project has been working for several months Gabriele Mane, an agronomist in Florence, which in this period is supported by Clare and Silvia Francioli Nannucci, two trainees of the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Florence. In particular, in this fifth mission in Africa, check the progress of agricultural experiments in support of the Hospital of St. Gaspar Itigi like iatropha, useful for the seeds from which we extract oil, rice cultivation in dry maize , sorghum, beans, cassava, Caiano, sunflower and potatoes for food. Good results have come from the stable and with better feed the animals we have gone from 3.5 to 7 liters of milk daily.
The working group will be asked to evaluate status of plant pathology and crop Itigi that of Dodoma, where presegue good production of vegetables and grapes.
"We will continue - remember Tofani - even the design of the winery Mission Miyuji, where ongoing work to extend the structure. To improve the production and make it marketable, thereby supporting local farmers, the technical means used, especially without air tanks for the fermentation of grapes. For this we will arrive from Italy of the steel plates that are impossible to find here, that will be worked by local blacksmiths to make the barrels. "
Project With the Project
Tanzania Tanzania, Agricultural Cooperative Woodshed is also committed to allocate one per thousand of its revenue, about 30 000 euro per year, the Village of Hope in Dodoma, engaged in prevention, care and social support for children affected by AIDS orphans or children of sick parents, and hospital of St. Gaspar Itigi, the only real medico in an extremely uncomfortable, and this figure may be increased by those members and 'Friends of Woodshed' who want to make available a part of the initiative of loyalty points and discounts obtained by purchasing in the shops of the Cooperative. In recent months, the project has expanded to the creation of a basement office in the Mission Miyuji, to support local farmers.
