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CITY OF JOY AND V-WORLD FARM

WORLD FARM VIDEO

V-WORLD FARM is now supplying some food for City of Joy, providing a

number of graduates to 401. Young women at City of Joy are hungry to learn

learning opportunity for residents. Everything at V-World is recycled. All trees are

and to share what they have learned in classes including literacy, English,

turned into wood for building. We even make our own cement. A road that facilitates

computers, human rights, self-defense, and sex education. There is much

better access to both sides of the land was recently built. And this year we harvested

creativity and art emerging from City of Joy, including a CD of original songs

seven tons of rice. A year ago, we had 10 pigs and now have 168. There are eight

and a stunning music video. The political impact of the program is evident -

ponds full of Tilapia. There are ten young women from City of Joy who work the land.

women are asking questions of the government, demanding their rights, and

Crops such as avocados, Macadamia nuts, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, and orange

rising for justice in the streets of Bukavu.

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IN MAY OUR FIFTH CLASS GRADUATED bringing the total

trees abound.

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