Frauen – Page 2 – Roots for Life

Foundation meeting

Monday August 28th, 2017Sunday January 21st, 2018 rootsforlifeCH_Farmgebäude

The women‘s association of Chyangsar has been established as a legal body in order to purchase land. The whole village as well as representatives of the new local government were present. Kusang Tamang helped to[…]

Cabbage

Thursday August 24th, 2017 rootsforlifeTrainingsfarm

Cabbage is one of the most important vegetable species in Nepal‘s mountain regions. It lasts long and is versatile. It can be used raw, as vegetables but also as filling for Momos can be used.[…]

Work in progress

Wednesday August 16th, 2017Wednesday August 16th, 2017 rootsforlifeTischlerinnen

Our female carpenters who we train at our carpentry workshop thogether with our local Partner Kar.Ma Coffee have only been trained for six moth, yet they already created amazing products. Their products will even be[…]

Safe and Loan within the village

Wednesday August 16th, 2017 rootsforlifeFrauen in Chyangsar

Safe and Loan is a good idea to increase the prosperity of a whole village. In order to improve their livelihood, every woman of the women’s association in Chyangsar puts a Nepali Rupee into a[…]

Oxen-Sharing

Wednesday August 9th, 2017Wednesday August 9th, 2017 rootsforlifeTrainingsfarm

Oxen and goats can now move into the finished stable on our training farm in the mountain village Chyangsar. Our special thanks goes to FairStyria for supporting the activities on our training farm. Carola Gosch[…]

How to produce compost

Wednesday August 9th, 2017 rootsforlifeTrainingsfarm

Of course, for the biological cultivation of vegetables compost is needed to fertilize the fields. Among other things, this is what we show to the village women of Chyangsar on our training farm. Together with[…]

Training on the fields

Tuesday August 1st, 2017 rootsforlifeTrainingsfarm

At our training farm in the mountain village of Chyangsar we enable the villagers participating in our training courses to understand how organic farming works. Here, for example, they learn how to make fertilizer out[…]

SI Switzerland and SI France sponsor expansion of training farm

Monday July 10th, 2017Tuesday October 3rd, 2017 rootsforlifeCH_Farmgebäude

Mainly a generous donation by Soroptimist International Switzerland and Union Francaise Soroptimist International enables us to expand our training farm which is located in the mountain village of Chyangsar in Nepal. The donation is assigned to us[…]

Networker for Humanity donate for building a training hall in Chyangsar

Tuesday July 4th, 2017Tuesday August 1st, 2017 rootsforlifeCH_Farmgebäude

Thanks to a generous donation from Networker for Humanity e.V. (among others) we are able to expand our training farm in the remote mountain village of Chyangsar. Since spring 2017, the village women have been[…]

Starting to sell vegetables

Tuesday July 4th, 2017Tuesday July 4th, 2017 rootsforlifeTrainingsfarm

Its weight is measured by a small hand scale. The organically grown vegetable is sold directly from the field and – as a start – ist goes mainly to the villagers. The vegetables come from[…]