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Farm Training Schools
9 May 2005
UN News Service
With many AIDS orphans in sub-Saharan Africa unable to farm because their parents died without passing on essential skills, the United Nations agricultural agency has set up 34 field schools to help provide the enthusiastic children with farming know-how and other life skills.
The specially designed Junior Farmer Field and Life Schools for orphaned children in Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia and Zambia are targeting around 1,000 young people, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), which is working with the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and other UN agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and local institutions to set up the courses.
The schools will help to recover or sustain traditional knowledge about indigenous crops, medicinal plants and biodiversity. In addition the schools aim to share agricultural knowledge, business skills and life skills with orphans and vulnerable children between 12 and 18. The knowledge and skills acquired by the young girls and boys should help them to develop positive values regarding gender equality and human rights.
Copyright 2005 UN News Service
For the Full Article, go to:
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=14209
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
http://www.fao.org/
category: News from Other Sources : AIDS News
contributed by Andrea Welch on 9 May 2005
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