Nurture Tanyan Community Agricultural Initiative Report

Wordsworth is pleased to release and support the following report by Nurture:

After assessing the needs of the community, we identified a series of needs--specifically health, sanitation, and education--that our organization has the expertise to meet. Nurture promotes the health and well-being of local communities and the introduction of agricultural improvements in impoverished areas in order to secure environmentally and economically sustainable futures for the communities in which we work.

The Tanyan Village community expressed their primary concerns to be regarding their access to healthcare and preventative measures such as potable water. They were also concerned about the lack of local infrastructure systems and the potential for environmental degradation within their community.

We, Nurture, propose the following initiatives that would fulfill the needs identified by the community.

Immediate goals (to be introduced within the first year of organization involvement) -> Boost agricultural production through the introduction of high yield crops, organic fertilizers/crop rotation, and irrigation within the Tanyan community and implementation of the appropriate infrastructure. Immediate benefits to the community (projects to be started within the first year): clean, accessible water, water purification technology and water distribution infrastructure are essential to the well-being of the community and the success of our projects, thus will be immediately constructed upon the start of the Implementation Phase; sanitation infrastructure, essential to the health of the community by both preventing the spread of disease AND ensuring access to potable water, building enough composting latrines to satisfy the needs of the population (30 ppl/latrine) will solve this issue; and health clinics, the health of the community is of the utmost importance to our organization and we will set up at least two clinic--staffed by trained, local healthcare workers--within the first year and continue the expansion of these services throughout our involvement within the community.

Mid-range Goals (to be introduced within the first 4 years of organization involvement) -> Continued development of agricultural sector, introduction of the agricultural and trade training programs (to be implemented within the first 2 years), and begin building social infrastructure (village marketing cooperative, women’s centre, etc.).

Long-term Goals (to be introduced within the first 8 years of organization involvement) -> Creation of an agricultural institute in the region to develop crop varieties that are designed specifically to thrive within the local environment (specifically soil type and composition and climate).


This report was made possible by funds donated by Wordsworth Energy.