Project Hope & Charité (PHC) widows made a day-long excursion with missionaries Paul & Diane Ohlin (working with GBIM in C.A.R.) to an agricultural research facility located 75 miles south of Bangui, Central African Republic to pick up some precious cargo: “super” hybrid versions of corn, yams and manioc (cassava).
Returning to Bangui, these ladies will call together their sisters, other widows, to plant these precious crops in the two large gardens that they farm in Bangui. Planting of the manioc will start in weeks, and the corn and yams will follow as soon as steady rains return. These hybrids are designed to produce higher crop yields and be more desease resistant.
PHC seeks to provide gardens for the use of widow care providers of PHC orphans. The food gleaned from these gardens become food on the table of these widows and cash crops to sell in the market place.