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.