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Great show with issues very close to my heart! Anthony Bourdain-PARTS UNKNOWN-Kenya,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaPYM9hrUVE . As Anthony Bourdain was sitting with comedian W. Kamau Bell overlooking a majestic landscape in Kenya, he said, ” This should be compulsive reviewing

Holistic Assessment.. Are we borrowing from future generations and leaving them in overwhelming debt… or giving them a platform to also enjoy healthy, wealthy lives? It’s more useful to consider ‘Holistic Debt’ which would consider both short and long term asse

  Below is a Crop Calendar to know when to plant and to expect your harvest in the areas we work in Zambia. Have a look at the calendar below to plan when you will plant your next crop. The upper part of the chart is for Chipata & Katete, the middle and lower sections of the

Every $1 donated* to our charity IN JUNE earns our organization a chance to win a $10,000 donation (minimum $3 donation required). The challenge begins June 1, 2018 at midnight Newfoundland Daylight Time (NDT) and ends on June 30, 2018 at 11:59:59 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time (PDT). The

Hello Readers, We would like to tell you about our updated data protection features. General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) legislation comes into effect on May 25th 2018 and we at Socio-Economic And Environmental Development Solutions (SEEDS) want to ensure that our communication

Our newest location is up and planting! It is wonderful how life goes and the connections we make. I met Paul, our manager at SEEDS Chipata-The Ngoni Seed Bank & Trees For Elephants back in 2014. I had seen his family in a documentary while watching TV here in Canada and contacted

Our manager in Kalabo told me in 2017 that farmers would walk for 9 hours to come and pick up a bushel of his tomatoes. Mualuka had over 3000 tomatoes plants. Can you imagine walking 9 hours there and 9 hours home to get a bushel of tomatoes so you could have some thing to eat and see

In my last blog, you may read here if you missed it,  http://sendseedstoafrica.org/pickering-rotary-all-givers/ , I explained how we used the money donated to SEEDS from the Rotary Club of Pickering in 2016.  In this blog I will be explaining how we have spent the monies so kindly don

Like plants that self-pollinate (maize) or spread throughout the whole garden, (mint), or grow a stem and then plant that stem in the ground by itself ( black berry bush), receiving a monetary gift from Rotary is a self-propagating venture and the benefits grow on their own in many un

November here in Canada means harvest, root vegetables, warm meals and hunkering down for the winter. November in Zambia means hot hot weather, hopefully the rains come and planting a lot of seeds. It is always a rush for me to get the pumpkin seeds dry so I can send them to Zambia. I