A step towards good health

Tika Rani is surprised to see her vegetable garden flourish after she started using organic fertiliser prepared at home. She is now growing beans, green chillies, yam, mustard and a variety of gourds on her once barren land.

Tika Rani and many other women in her remote village who depend on farming for their livelihood were trained in making organic fertiliser several months ago using different unused plants, household waste, and animal waste.

Soon after the training, the women worked on preparing fertiliser in their own fields.

They used their homemade fertiliser to grow new varieties of vegetables and the results were amazing.

A proud owner of a vegetable garden, Tika Rani says, “I didn’t utilise the land in front of my house to grow vegetables before. Now I am feeding my son the vegetables that grow here and he likes eating the gourds.”

Additionally, she also attended a pig rearing training and received two piglets. Her seven-year-old son Bhupendra is a World Vision sponsored child.

World Vision has trained 1,028 community people including women in four Village Development Committees in the east of Kailali, providing skills and knowledge in improved farming practices focussing on using organic fertiliser and growing off-seasonal vegetables.