April Impact 2015

IMPACT April 2015

Mothers in the Dominican Republic stand in the garden they started with help from Unbound.

c are for the Environment

T

he United Nations drafted 17 Sustainable Development Goals to help solve issues facing our world. In addition to poverty, hunger and sanitation, several of the proposed new goals focus on environmental issues.

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Earth Day’s

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anniversary will be celebrated on April 22, 2015

Many of Unbound’s philosophies are similar to the concepts outlined in these goals. For 33 years, Unbound has been working to help improve communities around the world.

As our way of celebrating Earth Day this April, we’re highlighting some of the ways individuals and families who are part of Unbound work toward sustainable development in their communities.

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Tanzania: Supporting goals 2, 3, 8, 12, 14, 15

U.N. Sustainable Development Goals Goal 2 Goal 3

Goal 6

Goal 8

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End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

ar Es Salaam is the largest city in Tanzania with a population of approximately 4

million people. A bustling metropolis with many people leaves little area for farming, so most fruits and vegetables must be transported

Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

or shipped into the city. However, around 10 families in the Unbound program have taken

Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

advantage of the swampy areas on river banks to sow a small garden. When the vegetables are ready for harvest, they sell them at wholesale or

Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all

retail to earn a living to support their families.

Goal 12 Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns Goal 13 Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts Goal 14 Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development

Goal 15 Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss

Philippines: Supporting goals 3, 6, 13, 14 “Bokashi” is a Japanese term

that

means

“fer-

mented organic matter” and refers to a system developed

Dominican Republic: Supporting goals 2, 3, 12, 15

I

n a rural area of the Dominican Republic, a mothers group called “New Hope” began

a community garden. The families live far from a local town, so buying vegetables was not only expensive but very difficult because of transportation issues. Unbound provided the initial seeds for planting and established a training program through another local organization.

About 26 mothers of sponsored children tend to the community garden. The families plant and

in Japan that uses beneficial micro-organisms to break down toxins and food waste. Bokashi balls are used to improve the life of the river and help restore it to its proper ecological balance.

Unbound’s Antipolo project in the Philippines has been making bokashi balls since 2009 and started to see positive environmental effects in area rivers where the mudballs have been utilized.

To make the bokashi balls, the Antipolo project combined a mixture of clay, ceramic powder, brown sugar or molasses and rock salt and then infused the mixture with micro-organisms. The mixture was formed into large balls and left to ferment for several weeks until coated with a fuzzy white fungus. The balls were dropped

harvest the crops for their own consumption.

into the river, one ball per square

The group has future plans to increase the

meter of river water, and will

size of their garden so they will have enough vegetables for consumption and sale.

Guatemala: Supporting goals 3, 6, 12, 13, 14, 15

dissolve in six months.

The micro-organisms in the bokashi balls eat

Maria, a former sponsored child, is

the harmful bacteria

pursuing environmental studies at

in the river, and then

a university. When she graduates

become

she hopes to go back to her home

food for the plant

in Guatemala so that she can work

and animal life in

for an organization helping to clean

the water.

a

healthy

up Lake Atitlan. She wants to help educate her community on how to clean the lake so they can have access to clean water.

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