Here are some facts from ECHO about hunger and food production. ~ The average small-scale farmer only produces half of the food needed for his/her family. ~ There are close to one billion people living in hunger (or under nourished) in the world today. ~ A child dies from hunger-related causes every 12 seconds. ~ … Continue reading Fun Fact Friday: ECHO
Taste of Africa: cowpeas
Cowpeas are one of the most important food legume crops in the semiarid tropics covering Asia, Africa, southern Europe and Central and South America. A drought-tolerant and warm-weather crop, cowpeas are well-adapted to the drier regions of the tropics, where other food legumes do not perform well. It also has the useful ability to fix … Continue reading Taste of Africa: cowpeas
TIMO Tuesday #3
Ministering in various African countries and contexts, TIMO embodies the missionary spirit of flexibility which adapts to meet the needs of a given situation. As a result of this flexibility and adaptation, specific TIMO teams can look very different from each other causing some to wonder what is it that makes TIMO, TIMO. There are … Continue reading TIMO Tuesday #3
Echo and a Reason
Claudia has arrived in Ft. Myers Florida for a week of agricluture training at ECHO. It was neat to hear from her last night as she was picked up from the Airport by a fellow AIM missionary we met at candidate week. Her roomate is a fellow AIM missionary who just got back from a … Continue reading Echo and a Reason
Fun Fact Friday
Some of the best Africian Proverbs of 2013. Courtesy of the BBC Africa Webpage "Beware of the naked man who offers you clothes." "Those who want rain must also accept the mud." "If you want to improve your memory, lend someone money." "Two rams cannot drink from the same bucket at the same time." "The … Continue reading Fun Fact Friday
Ha3els in Africa 