Urban Gardens in Ethiopia Help HIV-Affected Women

USAID supports an Urban Gardens program in Ethiopia to provide vulnerable and HIV-affected women with the tools, land and knowledge to plant vegetable gardens, feed their families, and sell the produce to increase household income. The program trains women in nutrition, composting, vegetable growing, irrigation, proper hygiene and HIV/AIDS issues. USAID works with the local government to secure sites in the city to establish garden plots with reliable access to a water source. Workers with degrees in agriculture help the women plant seeds, care for seedlings, prepare and use compost and install and maintain the simple drip irrigation systems that feed the garden plants. USAID also provides the plastic tubs and drip irrigation tubes that eliminate the daily backbreaking work of carrying water to the rows of vegetables.

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• Ethiopia
• food security
• HIV/AIDS
• Africa
• international development
• livelihoods
• gardening
• health
• food