I'm a volunteer at a teacher's training institute in Kakata, Liberia. The teacher trainees pay no tuition and receive free room and board. There is no income to the school and very little support from the Ministry of Education. Most of our food is delivered to us twice weekly by an arm of USAID. This food delivery will stop soon. At that time we will have no way to supply the three meals a day to the trainees that we are required to do.
Cassava is being planted along with a small pineapple plot and some vegetables. We are also raising pigs, goats, chickens and ducks. We have hopes of growing rice and preparing a fish pond. But the time difference between when the food deliveries will stop and we will be self-sufficient can be measured in years.
Better food management, better accountability and smaller portions are our only stop-gap measures at this time.
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