WAND Foundation

 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...

 Sustained support to women entrepreneurs. We experienced active women in the rural villages who want to improve their standards of living via the implementation of small-scale livelihood enterprises. We are keen in supporting them and then rolling-over their repayments to other needy beneficiaries in a passing-on-the-gift scheme. These are short-term, well monitored and managed project in order to ensure that our little resources really improves the lives of our beneficiaries. Thanks so much to friends and supporters who are partnering with us in this initiative. Mabuhay!

 Happy to announce that the Associated Country Women of the World (ACWW) in the United Kingdom has approved our project "Mindanao Pilot Sustainable Sanitation and Food Security Project" with the project areas in 2 municipalities in Misamis Oriental. The project seeks to improve access to water and sanitation and improve health and nutrition via vegetable gardening and root crop production among marginal farming communities. The project will run for 1 year starting this month. Hoping great success with this new partnership. 

 This time of year, December is one of the busiest that we have mainly due to the Holiday Season as well as with the difficult situation in our project areas because of the Coronavirus pandemic. Despite this, we continue to deliver much-needed services to our communities, thanks a lot to our supporters from the Philippines as well as internationally. We are grateful for the help which ensures our continuing support to our beneficiaries with our signature water, agroforestry, nutrition and development projects. May I share some photos of our activities...