Planting seeds was the first thing we did in the model village. We planted maize, beans, peanuts, cassava, sweet potatoes in massive amounts

When I found out our model village had marshland, Marina who is the Patron of our Self Sustaining Orphanage bought $900 of rice seeds and we got so much rice we were able to help the whole orphan population of the subcounty. Then to help this orphan population further, we planted $7500 worth of seeds in the 24 villages where those kids lived and now the subcounty can feed everyone including their orphan population.

At first we were just concentrating on Wanga Parish and its orphanage being self sustaining but word of our food prosperity caused the leaders of the subcounty to come to Wanga and ask if they were going to leave them out as they were starving after the lockdowns.

So we brought their whole orphan population to Wanga Parish for a big event where all the kids were told that we were going to help them.

We bought them all jackets and blankets and planted seeds and set up feeding stations for the kids in every Parish. This was all financed by the NGO, which was Marina’s Dental offices sending their money in monthly. A population of over 10,000 is self sustaining because of all those seeds.

YES helping the orphans is what ended up helping everyone.

At one point they almost lost 3 acres of sweet potatoes during a drought so Marina bought irrigation equipment for the orphanage and really long hoses. This is what you are up against in Africa, flooding crops during the raining season and droughts at other times. You have to come up with solutions or you will starve.

Our next great project is that Martins son Arthur was sent to school to become a civil engineer and he is going to recruit fellow civil engineering students to join our crusade and solve the problems that occur during the rainy season and turn these problems related to flooding into diverting the water for future use such as irrigation. They can channel water off the crops and into small lakes and rivers that are manmade and stop houses and crops and bridges from being destroyed. It will also give the opportunity for fish farming and swimming. So this civil engineering project is VITAL.