Milling around the clock

Not long ago we happily announced the purchase of our new hammer mill. And apparently word about it spread like wildfire in the neighbouring villages. Everyday people from different villages, more or less far away, come to Chinkonono to get their maize milled. They literally line up at PAF Center.

everyday people from different villages come to PAF Center to get their maize milled

PAF now provides services to people from surrounding villages

 

At the moment we still keep the mill under a temporary shelter made of wood. But the actual building we construct to keep the mill safe will be done soon.

We also found a 20-year-old strong man who will be our PAF miller. His job is to coordinate the usage of the mill and do the milling for people who bring their maize. Also he is responsible to keep the mill safe and working. Now meet our Steven:

this young man is our PAF miller: Steven

 

So as you can see our mill is milling basically around the clock. That is good for PAF because we can raise some funds for our upcoming and running projects. But mainly we are focused on making life easier for our villagers and the people of the Chinkonono region.

Maize waiting to be turned into mealie meal 😉

Our PAF kids in action

our mill is very busy already

 

Stay tuned for more updates on what is going on in Chinkonono. There are still big things planned…

 

Let the music play ;)

Please check out our cute kids in Chinkonono who express their joy about how much PAF changes their lives! 🙂

One love, one family, one world! PAF – Love without boarders.

 

PAF Vegetable Garden

As you probably remember we moved our greenhouses to PAF Center a while ago. This turned out to be very convenient for everyone.

Now we decided to try again with a vegetable garden. So we are now planting our veggies and fixing the shade net to our garden. This has been long in the making and is bearing fruit as all materials are available.

transporting these poles for 15km to build our new shade netting

Our PAF kids helping unload the poles

PAF wired 😉

Our PAF members working hand in hand

Setting up the new shade netting

 

But don’t think all this has been easy. We used some of the money that PAF raised through donations and the annual fees of our supporting members to buy what was missing. But getting the materials from A to B to Chinkonono was a bit of a struggle. Some of those huge poles had to travel for more than 15km on an ox cart. Hard work.

We are using this project to educate members on effective vegetable farming and flower gardening. Kids and youths from Chinkonono can come to PAF Center and learn how to plant and take care of different types of seedlings and also when and how to harvest and re-plant.

planting veggies

Those little guys are getting a new shelter at PAF Center now

Our PAF Youth learns how to grow and water plants

 

Also the garden will be used as a means to raise funds by selling our products at PAF Market. We are planting cabbage, onions, sugar loaf, tomatoes and many other vegetables suitable for the climate and which can be consumed by local people.