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It’s not a Christmas Carol, But it is Christmas!
Dec 09, 2016
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In April 2014 our Manager Fredrick, Assistant Manager Matindo and I went looking in the outskirts of Mungu for poles to build our Tree Nursery beside our Resource Garden. We stopped at this village where people cut down trees and hide them in the bush until they get a prospecti
Read MoreThis is what I am doing for Giving Tuesday!
Nov 28, 2016
I have 3 whole orange pumpkins and one white pumpkin that I collected on garbage day so if you would like to help on Giving Tuesday, Nov.29th I would love if you could come over and help me take the seeds out of them. joanne@sendseedstoafrica.org. White pumpkins are orange inside and
Read MoreWho likes the Ontario Science Centre?
Nov 20, 2016
The first person to donate $20.00 or more to our project The Silozi Seed Bank will win 2 adult tickets to the Ontario Science Centre, a $44.00 value, valid to January 21st, 2017. What a great Christmas present for the kids over the holidays! Please click on the following link
Read MoreGreat Night at SEEDS Harvest Festival
Oct 26, 2016
A BIG Thank You to all for coming! We had about 135 people and by the feed back I am getting, everyone had a great time. Thanks to all of the wonderful volunteers for your hard work. Bendale B.T.I, for the great food, Mill St. Breweries, Southbrook Vineyards, The Big Carrot for savin
Read MoreSEEDS has a new Garage at 36 Playter Blvd.
Sep 11, 2016
As many of you are aware, you may donate gently used items to SEEDS for our Garage Sales. Our next one is Sept.17th We so much appreciate all of the kind donations and the help from many of our neighbours by volunteering to help at the sales. On Sept 17th we will be moving to our new
Read MoreWhy send seeds to Zambia?
The question has been asked, “Why not just encourage seed saving of their native foods in the communities of Africa”. I can only speak of the communities where we work in Zambia but I am sure that there are similar problems throughout all of the African countries and other impoverishe
Read MoreSEEDS Harvest Festival-Sat. Oct.15th-Estonian House-Grand Hall
Aug 20, 2016
Hope you all had a wonderful Thanks Giving and want to carry on the festivities. Join us this Saturday, Oct.15th for a fun night out dancing, games, prizes, great food and two great Bands. $5.00 organic beer from Mill St. and wine from Southbrook Vineyards. $3.00 each for your choice
Read MoreSEEDS Yard/Garage Sales
As many of you know SEEDS collects gently used items from people who want to have a clean out and the proceeds help us with our various projects in Zambia and Canada. We will be having another Yard/Garage Sale on Saturday Aug. 20, 2016 so if you have anything you would like to donate
Read MoreEradicating Poverty-Hans Rosling
Aug 15, 2016
I am not a big watcher of television but if I do sit and relax, which I am told to do more of, I watch the documentary channel, TVO, educational or travel shows. I saw a talk by Hans Rosling https://www.ted.com/speakers/hans_rosling who is a statistician who has been studying poverty
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