Dickson woman tackling food need in her community
AFTER SEEING SINGLE MOTHERS From her community struggle to make ends meet and feed their children, Natilia Franklyn-Pilgrim from Dickson Village, Georgetown, initiated a project in July, this year to help change this situation.
The sustainability plant advocate and Ambassador for ‘Helen’s Daughter’ (a non-profit organisation that focuses on building the individual and collective capacity of women farmers in the Caribbean region so that they can exercise their economic rights) established the community gardening project. She told SEARCHLIGHT that, “it focuses on helping young and disadvantaged or single mothers to give them an opportunity to grow their own food so it could help with their situation at home”.
She pointed out that the project focuses on educating young children in agriculture. While not a single mother herself, Natilia said understands the burden. She shared that in her village, there are children who attend school without having breakfast and even children would have to beg for water.
“Those types of people I want to reach to give them a sustainable way of growing food.”
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