Your gift helps provide training to families in Bangladesh on cultivating a vegetable garden that meets nutritional needs and improves child and family health. Many of these gardens also provide extra income from selling the produce at the local market.

In Bangladesh, child malnutrition is common and can have long term health and developmental effects. By supporting and encouraging families to grow more of their own nutritious food at home, and educating children and parents about a healthy diet, the health of malnourished children can improve dramatically, helping them perform better in school and setting them up for a stronger future. 

In the photograph is Asma. She and her family used to struggle to get by on one to two meals a day, because that is all they could afford on her husband’s irregular, day labouring wages. Then, she took a loan from her savings group to buy cucumber vines which she planted around her home.  After one season of selling the cucumbers at the market she had made a profit, and with another loan from her savings group she bought some more land and planted a field of tomatoes. Now Asma and her husband work side by side in their field, they have been able to pay back their loan, the extra vegetables are supplementing their diet and the extra income means that their children are able to go to school, an opportunity Asma never had as a little girl.