Sowing seeds of peace in India 🌱🕊️ People living in the Kandhamal District in eastern India have endured decades of conflict. Discrimination and violence between religious groups have fueled poverty, unemployment and conflict in communities across the district. MCC partner Society for Nature, Education and Health (SNEH) works with local farmers to promote peace through economic opportunity. With your support, 1,126 people from 270 households have learned to grow more food and have explored new ways to earn an income with farming. Here are a few highlights from the past year: 🌱- Participants learned how to prepare and use organic fertilizers and improve farm yields using new techniques like line sowing. 🌱- 30 farmers received vegetable seeds like beans, corn, radish, pumpkin and gourds. 🌱- 120 goats were distributed to 60 households with training on how to care for them. Rearing baby goats is a new and valuable source of income for farmers. Photo: Parma Badaset smiles as he shows the bean plants thriving in his kitchen garden. With your support, Parma and his fellow farmers in Bhutadi, India, are working hard to learn new farming techniques. #MCCPeace #India #Peace MCC photo/Mercy Jishing (fb)

A special thank you to our friends at Habecker Mennonite Church for packing 253 school kits for the MCC School Kit Challenge! We are so grateful! We love seeing everyone's photos from the MCC School Kit Challenge! Keep them coming! (fb)