KarunaNews Story

Augustinian Srs. Aurora Jacinto and Ediltrudis Clemente Chinchay, both from Peru, are improving livelihoods amid climate change and terrorism in Mozambique's Nampula Province. Arriving at St. Netia Mission in 2003 and 2022, Jacinto and Chinchay saw how womens' difficulties faced were worsened by poor yields from their family gardens. The Biodiversity and Agricultural Program, founded in 2022, supports almost 500 female farmers in buying equipment and seeds, diversifying crops, enriching soil, and adopting community farming models and fast-growing nitrogen-fixing trees. The Irish charity Misean Cara was moved by the opportunity to help "improve their crops in the light of the changing climate and the impacts on soil quality that has been decreasing over time and to introduce new skills and new agricultural techniques," said CEO John Moffett.