Revisiting our goals.
Our goal is to
empower the local youths, give them hope and roots in the barrios where they
are living by making the barrios productive, vibrant and a repository of local
knowledge at the same time improving the local biodiversity by nurturing the
land in a low-external input system (as opposed to high-chemical agriculture)
and incorporating crop-trees-animals in a nutrient-cycle, sustainable
manner. The ALEY-NM is a winner of the
2010 Ten Accomplished Youth Organization in the Philippines and an awardee of
the “Saka” award by the Department of Agriculture. We have successfully
implemented projects supported by the Japan Water Forum, AsiaDhraa, US Embassy
and the UH-Habitat.