The Hoja Project was set up as a UK registered charity in 2005 and since 2013 has now run under the charity registration of COCO (Comrades Of Children Overseas). COCO has supported Hoja since the very early days, so this represents no real change in the day-to-day operation of Hoja.

COCO's webpage on Hoja can be found here, and they regularly produce news on all their projects. This blog is updated on a volunteer basis, so new posts tend to be every few months.

Saturday, 16 April 2011

Update - Permaculture & Graduations

Hello all.  Welcome to another Hoja update.

Permaculture

Hoja has been looking into ways to help local farmers in Tanga ward work sustainably and Oswin has been telling us about some of the impact in his monthly reports:

NEGESO rice farm
NEGESO Rice Farm, Songea
Permaculture being the new thing to Songea community, but many people have proved that it is very important.  An IGP group NEGESO attended the course and have applied the knowledge in the rice growing.  They were doing this even before but they were using fertilizers.  But this year they have done it without using fertilizers, instead they have used composite manures, the results have been very positive.