Every three months, community members in Northern Thailand harvest red tilapia fish. These fish are then divided into three size categories and supplied to fish farmers. The largest fish are sold to cage fish farmers, mostly located on the Ping …
Posts Tagged ‘Agriculture’
Fishing for Bright Futures
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Written on August 26th, 2013
Filed under: Community Development
Tags: Agriculture, Children, Thailand
Filed under: Community Development
Tags: Agriculture, Children, Thailand
Caring for the Earth: Ecuador
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Written on June 19th, 2013
Filed under: Community Development
Tags: Agriculture, Ecuador
Filed under: Community Development
Tags: Agriculture, Ecuador
Twenty-one families in Ecuador are changing the way they work in agriculture in order to better care for their environment. With funds and new skills to start producing mushrooms as a sustainable crop, farmers were able to substitute the cultivation …
Spiritual Formation Because of Chickens
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Written on June 14th, 2013
Filed under: Community Development
Tags: Agriculture, Cameroon
Filed under: Community Development
Tags: Agriculture, Cameroon
In Cameroon, Covenant missionary Sharon Davis has coordinated chicken brooding farms in three communities. Small prayer groups work together to raise and fatten chicks that are given to them by these brooding farms. Each group is trained in poultry farming, …
How a CWR Project Shares the Gospel
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Written on May 27th, 2013
Filed under: Community Development
Tags: Agriculture, Cameroon
Filed under: Community Development
Tags: Agriculture, Cameroon
Covenant missionary Sharon Davis is heading up our chicken project in Cameroon. Her reflections below are a great indication of the great and unique ways the CWR projects spread the gospel:
As a Covenant missionary, I applied to Covenant World
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Food security in Central African Republic
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Written on May 8th, 2013
Filed under: Community Development
Tags: Agriculture, Central African Republic
Filed under: Community Development
Tags: Agriculture, Central African Republic
Lack of food security is a serious issue in many parts of the world, and the Central African Republic is one such place. CAR has been labeled by the U.N. as one of the 10 least developed countries in the …
