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Santa Rani Chaudhari, aged 30, is a farmer living near Nepalgunj, in Western Nepal. She has seen her life transformed by UK aid. A mother of two, Santa was given help to buy more expensive seeds and advised on how to plant and grow vegetables and fruits through the UK-supported Community Support Programme (CSP). Santa barely grew enough food to feed her 12-year-old son and seven-year-old daughter before she was given support to buy seeds and trained in growing crops. She now uses half her plot of land to grow vegetables and the other half for cereal crops. "My husband is a driver but he does not make much money. We needed what I grew to feed the family but we were often hungry," says Santa. "I had to borrow money for my children to go to school. The interest rates were very high and I feared getting behind in my payments. I was always worried I would lose everything but I thought education was important. "They would come home from school and help me in the fields because I had no one else to help me. Everything we grew was for us, but I have now made R30,000 in three months from selling crops. My children still help me but I hope soon I will make enough to employ someone else instead so they can just work on learning." Farmers across Nepal have been given help buying seeds, offered advice on growing vegetables and helped to build wells to irrigate their crops. These farmers are from isolated communities where 38% of people live below the poverty line and are often forced to walk more than two hours to their nearest made road. The Community Support Programme is now in its tenth year. It provides a life line for rural people – allowing them to grow and sell crops to feed their families, send their children to school and for those living beyond the reach of the government's free healthcare programme, to pay for healthcare and the cost of transport to reach it. To find out more on how we’re helping farmers through the CSP, vist: www.dfid.gov.uk/Stories/Case-Studies/2013/Nepal-Community... Picture: Robert Stansfield/DFID |
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