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Posted in Newsletter on 28 June 2010
PRAYER POINTS
- Thanks for the successful purchase of land near Kisumu, after a lengthy time of search and negotiation
- Prayer for safety in travel as many of REAP’s workers have to endure difficult and frequently dangerous circumstances
- Praise that REAP has been able to benefit from many recent talented visitors who have helped produce ingenious cost effective practical ways in which Africa’s rural poor are able to improve their standard of living
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REAP successfully acquires much needed plot of land at Kisumu
After many frustrating delays REAP has …
Posted in Newsletter on 28 June 2010
PRAYER POINTS
- Thanks that Help a Child Africa are extremely interested in REAP’s work and would like to help take it forward
- The REAP team has been very encouraged by the amount of people who will be visiting their work this year
- Please pray for safety in travel for all who are involved in REAP, especially for the those who need to cover large distances in often difficult circumstances
David and Emma enhance REAP team
David and Emma Craig will be working with Action Partners – Pioneers for the next year. They joined the REAP team in …
Posted in Newsletter on 16 October 2009
Three out of Three!
REAP has won the top prize for each category that they entered at the Kisumu Show this year.
REAP came first in Best Small Trade Stand, Best NGO and Best stand in Environmental Management. The first two had been won in previous years but the third was particularly noteworthy since it was competing with large well resourced organizations.
Cries of ‘unfair’ overruled
When the winners were announced there was a protest and in the evening a delegation from the organizers checked on whether the awards …
Posted in Newsletter on 20 August 2009
Vetiver Grass gains ground!
The recent heavy rainfall, following an unusually dry season, has brought huge amounts of soil down the slopes. A lot of small farmers have found that the quality of their soil has been severely depleted.
However, this was good news for REAP worker George, because he had planted a hedge of vetiver grass round his land.
Fellow farmers had seen how hard George worked taking extra cuttings of Artemisia when the long dry season caused many source plants to flower early.
Then the heavy rain swept soil down the …
Posted in Newsletter on 25 March 2009
REAP Training
REAP staff constantly try to follow up and encourage people who have been the most active in implementing REAP’s sustainable concepts.
George will be shortly returning to West Pokot to follow up a recent natural medicines seminar with more detailed super-vision of applying the methods.
In May a training session will focus on the most enthusiastic women who have adopted REAP’s ideas. This is important so that experiences may be shared, learning can be endorsed, new teaching added and the message encouraged to be spread more widely.
REAP Ideas go to India
Moving …
Posted in Newsletter on 10 February 2009
Encouragements in the work
The last few months have been busy and full of interest. In September Roger spent two weeks in Tanzania with the Diocese of Central Tanganyika in Dodoma. Having helped them plan their present Food Security programme in 2007, the development team had requested World Relief Canada to enable me to return for two weeks training. This was particularly encouraging as it was to train in the area where my heart is, namely on Biblical stewardship as the basis of sustainable agriculture.
We had two weeks with the development team, including two days with the board members and some …
Posted in Newsletter on 12 September 2008
REAP Workshops
Another series of workshops are planned in November to establish new church contacts. This will be a chance to bring more people on board.The starting point will be Natural Medicines but the Biblical basis of stewardship, and all that implies, will be incorporated throughout the training.
Roger in Tanzania
At the beginning of September Roger is traveling to Dodoma in Tanzania on behalf of World Relief Canada (their equivalent of Tearfund). REAP’s work is very much in line with what they hope to achieve.
Roger will be revising the work plan for the Diocese of …
Posted in Newsletter on 13 June 2008
New for this year’s Kisumu Show
George and Samuel are busy preparing the stand for this year’s Kisumu Show in August, which has become a useful platform in recent years to communicate REAP ideas to Africa’s rural community.
This year REAP is to introduce a demonstration of many reused waste products, such as plastic water bottles and supermarket bags. Most items that would otherwise be a nuisance can be simply converted into beneficial products.
Plastic bottles are able to be simply converted into fly traps or used to regulate the use of water for washing. Plastic …
Posted in Newsletter on 19 March 2008
Rift Valley Travel LimitationsThe disruption in January has made REAP concentrate on in-depth discussion with many who have been keen to seek out Roger’s advice and discuss ideas.This has been particularly the case with those who work in Sudan or who are looking to expand into the use of natural medicines.Restrictions on travel have also allowed the team more time to put new ideas down on paper and produce the much needed literature to convey them to a wider audience.In mid- March Roger was once more able to visit the work in Kisumu.
Kisumu
Rosalia is …
Posted in Newsletter on 1 October 2007
Good News for the Poor
REAP continues to extend it’s teaching and write more leaflets explaining simple methods of sustainable improvement in the use of agriculture, cooking methods nutrition and natural medicines, largely through African Christian churches.
Success at Kisumu
In August Reap won first places as Best Small Trade Stand and Best NGO Stand, and second place as Best Environmental Management at Kenya’s Kisumu Show. The medical garden once more caused great interest in displaying how Africa’s poorest people can effectively grow plants which can be of enormous …
