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Update from the Buwala Orphanage!

November 22, 2011

A quick note from Paul, the director of the Buwala Orphanage in Jinja, Kenya. DIG established the Buwala Orphanage Garden in 2009. …Now about the home, the kids are very fine, and they are soon leaving for their holiday in the beginning of December.With the Garden, we had a lot of rainfall! We have been enjoying our greens very well, but due to the heavy rains, the crops are being harvested quite quickly due to the rapid growth. As

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DIG ‘Garden TV’ in Kenya

November 21, 2011

By Catherine Magill, DIG Program Coordinator When you go on safari in Africa, and you’re relaxing on the porch of your tent watching the hippos and crocodiles in the river or the zebra and gazelles on the plain in front of you, your safari hosts will jokingly say that you are watching ‘Bush TV’. For those without access to safaris, DIG is undertaking to launch a new channel called ‘Garden TV’. Last week at Crossroads Springs Institute, a primary school

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DIG will be back in Kenya!

August 11, 2011

Previously, DIG has developed three separate sites in Kenya: 1) Ruiru- a Clinic south of Nairobi with Mother 2 Mothers, 2) Raila- a school in the heart of the Kibera slums, and 3) WISER girls secondary school– in Muhuru bay only a few hours from our new sites. This fall, DIG will begin two new projects with Crossroads Spring School and Lwala Community Hospital outside of Kisumu and Kisi, respectively. The new projects are a unique partnership between the

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DIG’s Growing Community of Support

February 17, 2011

DIG has seen an amazing influx of committed, available, and qualified individuals join our thriving garden community. Get to know a few of them below: Jamie Hamblin is helping craft the content and design of our nutrition manual. She is finishing her masters in Nutrition from Georgia State University. Jamie, will be joining DIG on site in Zambia this summer to evaluate the effectiveness of DIG’s nutrition resources. – If you would like to support DIG’s effort to bring Jamie

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Board Growth

February 3, 2011

As DIG prepares for it’s annual Board retreat in a few weeks we are excited to welcome two new members to the team. Bill Westwood and Beth Pann have been passionate supporters of DIG for many years now. Bill has even made the trek to visit our first sites planted in Senegal. You can visit this link to read more about DIG’s Board of Directors https://www.dig.org/Reap_Life/BOD.html