Restoring family life after war through Food For Work program
“This program is currently my only opportunity to be employed and I would not mind working in additional projects of this kind,” says Khvicha, who holds a degree in Engineering from the University of Tbilisi, Georgia. Though farming involves difficult labor under the sun’s scorching heat, Khvicha is grateful for his job that enables him to provide for his two teenagers, and for all that he has.
“Thank goodness my house remained undamaged when I returned after the war,” he says with a deep sigh.
Though farming involves difficult labor under the sun’s scorching heat, Khvicha is grateful for his job that enables him to provide for his two teenagers, and for all that he has
An industrious farmer, Khvicha is in charge of 195 workers who participate in the World Vision-supported FFW program in Makhundja. The workers uproot old tea plantations in order to plant maize and beans. The first harvest was in September 2007.
“I always hope that we will have a good harvest for all of my workers. May God help us to achieve good results,” says Khvicha.
“He’s a very good leader,” says one of the farm labourers who Khvicha supervises.
“This was the first former tea plantation we changed into arable land for vegetables,” says Khvicha, proudly pointing at a field prepared for harvest a few months ago. “Soon my workers will have done the same to this 10 hectare land where I am standing now.”
After uprooting the first tea plantation, the FFW participants built several dams on the shores of the Kvishona River to protect against flooding.
Murtazi Kurkava, head of Administration in Makhundi village, explains that tea used to be a very profitable business during the Soviet-era: “Our tea market was very developed before the war.” Nowadays there is no lucrative tea market in Abkhazia and the abandoned plantations are overgrown. “That’s why we decided to uproot the tea plantations so that we can grow vegetables. The workers will share the arable land between them.”
I hope that we will have a good harvest for all of my workers. May God help us to achieve good results.
In the long run, Khvicha hopes to get regular employment as a labourer at a citrus plantation.
World Vision runs the FFW project in partnership with World Food Programme (WFP). The project aims to improve household livelihood and food security in Abkhazia by creating and rehabilitating agricultural and public infrastructure assets, with particular focus on rehabilitating land that has been de-mined after the war.
“Altogether we have 9,352 participants. They each get a daily food ratio of 2.2 kilograms of wheat flour as well as 120 grams of sugar and vegetable oil,” explains FFW Program Coordinator Temur Shonia.
The program engages communities in Sukhumi, Ochamchira, Tkvarcheli and Gali districts.
“Thank goodness my house remained undamaged when I returned after the war,” he says with a deep sigh.
Though farming involves difficult labor under the sun’s scorching heat, Khvicha is grateful for his job that enables him to provide for his two teenagers, and for all that he has
An industrious farmer, Khvicha is in charge of 195 workers who participate in the World Vision-supported FFW program in Makhundja. The workers uproot old tea plantations in order to plant maize and beans. The first harvest was in September 2007.
“I always hope that we will have a good harvest for all of my workers. May God help us to achieve good results,” says Khvicha.
“He’s a very good leader,” says one of the farm labourers who Khvicha supervises.
“This was the first former tea plantation we changed into arable land for vegetables,” says Khvicha, proudly pointing at a field prepared for harvest a few months ago. “Soon my workers will have done the same to this 10 hectare land where I am standing now.”
After uprooting the first tea plantation, the FFW participants built several dams on the shores of the Kvishona River to protect against flooding.
Murtazi Kurkava, head of Administration in Makhundi village, explains that tea used to be a very profitable business during the Soviet-era: “Our tea market was very developed before the war.” Nowadays there is no lucrative tea market in Abkhazia and the abandoned plantations are overgrown. “That’s why we decided to uproot the tea plantations so that we can grow vegetables. The workers will share the arable land between them.”
I hope that we will have a good harvest for all of my workers. May God help us to achieve good results.
In the long run, Khvicha hopes to get regular employment as a labourer at a citrus plantation.
World Vision runs the FFW project in partnership with World Food Programme (WFP). The project aims to improve household livelihood and food security in Abkhazia by creating and rehabilitating agricultural and public infrastructure assets, with particular focus on rehabilitating land that has been de-mined after the war.
“Altogether we have 9,352 participants. They each get a daily food ratio of 2.2 kilograms of wheat flour as well as 120 grams of sugar and vegetable oil,” explains FFW Program Coordinator Temur Shonia.
The program engages communities in Sukhumi, Ochamchira, Tkvarcheli and Gali districts.
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