WAND Foundation

 May we share our latest report on our project Tree Growing for Food and Biodiversity at Global Giving; Dear Friend, Thank you very much for your generous support to our initiative tree growing for food and biodiversity. This project is getting traction with opportunities we are focusing on mainly on the carbon credit market. We have applied for an accelerator program so that trees planted by our farmers are enrolled into the carbon credit and carbon offset mechanism. This is indeed a big opportunity given our perennial lack of resources to implement tree growing activities because of funding needs. Hoping that we are successful in our quest to partner with the international community towards this. We promote agro-reforestation which farmers like because of their need for food and income while the trees are growing. Your continuing support is badly needed. Thank you very much and happy holidays to you. Very sincerely yours, Cora Sayre 

  Dear Friend, Warm greetings and thank you very much for your support to our initiative providing goats for poor farming families. Goats remain the most versatile and economical farm-based project that a farmer can have since goats are hardy and are ruminants and can survive on grasses for their growth. They are able to mate also twice a year and produce offspring. The meat of goats are also most sought after in the market and people come to purchase them. This reporting period we promoted the growing of food and forage crop that are both beneficial for humans as well as the plant material can be eaten by goats. For example of this is sweet potato which can be grown in open, small spaces, even on empty sacks and containers. We started a small pilot utilizing this and we hope that we will be able to expand this. Thank you very much. Very sincerely yours, Cora Sayre

 Good day. We are happy to launch our newest project which is Carbon Farming to Mitigate Climate Change. The details of this project can be found in Global Giving. This project will pilot a farmer-based climate mitigation solution via carbon farming and the promotion of community-based carbon farms. Small-scale farmers are one of the best drivers in climate mitigation by the practice of regenerative agriculture and promoting the practice via social media and physical farm visits. We will also partner with business so that they will be able to help this initiative. Please see link for more details, https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/carbon-farming-to-mitigate-climate-change/

 Greetings and thank you so much for funding our project on water, sanitation and food security for women and their families in 2 villages in Misamis Oriental.  The project is improving access to sanitation for upland barangays severely affected by the El Ni ñ o phenomenon.  This will be located in upland barangays in the municipalities of Manticao and Libertad, Misamis Oriental province. The El Ni ñ o phenomenon produces either long dry season or severe storms and the socio-economic conditions of the households are affected. Constructing and owning latrines becomes very difficult especially for very poor farming families. The spread of diseases due to open defecation is a continuing threat. The dignity of women and girls defecating in the open is also lessened. Aside from the latrines, we will implement backyard gardening using resources around their farms thereby improving their food security. We will post regular updates as we implement this project. 

 Our Toyota Environment Fund supported project in Leyte is gaining momentum. This project aims to;  Ÿ    To conduct a quick survey of 600 existing coconut farms around Palo Municipality, Northeast Leyte, and identity 300 farmers who have strong interests in agroforestry conversion and reforestation. Afterwards, we will conduct a detailed socioeconomic survey of 300 participant farmers on their background of typhoon damage and current livelihood conditions. The surveys will be conducted by a team of 3 WAND staff, the faculty of the Ecological Farm and Resource Management Research Institute (ECO-FARMI) and affiliated 5 research assistants at the Visayas State University. Ÿ    To supply 300 participant farms 24,000 trees and seedlings (including 9,000 high-valued hardwood trees, 9, 000 fruit and bamboo trees and 6,000 vegetables and root crops). We will also provide them training on organic farming, livestock farming, agroforestry, afforestation, and extens...

  Meet Cora Sayre, a 2018 Disaster Feedback Fellow of the Disaster Recovery Network at GlobalGiving.   T he country Cora Sayre calls home is  one of the most vulnerable to climate change  in the world. She has seen the increasing intensity of typhoons over the last decade—and made it her life’s mission to help rural farming communities in the Philippines become more resilient to devastating disasters and volatile economic conditions. Cora and her husband founded the nonprofit  Water, Agroforestry, Nutrition and Development Foundation  (WAND) in 2008. “Both of us were born poor,” she said, “and it kindled a desire in our hearts to really uplift ourselves and help other people who are like us to gain their voice and be active partners in their development.” The destructive power of typhoons in the Philippines has intensified by 50% in the past 40 years due to warming seas, according to a North Carolina at Chapel Hill study. “In 2013, when Typhoon Haiyan struc...