TİKA provides aid to Tajik families, introduces eggplant to Somalians
by Anadolu Agency
ANKARAAug 14, 2015 - 12:00 am GMT+3
by Anadolu Agency
Aug 14, 2015 12:00 am
The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) continues its aid efforts in all corners of the world, with the agency currently lending a helping hand to those in need in Tajikistan and Somalia.
TIKA sent relief supply kits to 160 families in Tajikistan's southern region, which suffered grave damage due to excessive rain. According to a TİKA statement, the agency contacted Tajikistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and sent packages that included food supplies for three months to 160 families to provide relief and dress the wounds of the Tajiks following the natural disaster.
The agency said all the aid that was given to the agency was collected and handed over to the authorities at the State Reserve and Material Agency in Tajikistan with the coordination of Tajikistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in order to be distributed to the families in need. Some of the settlements in Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region and the states of Sugh and Khatlon experienced landslides due to heavy rain in July. Tajik President Qohir Rasulzoda had announced that the economic damage of the heavy rain amounted to $50 million.
Meanwhile, the Agriculture School Project in Somalia, which was co-initiated by TİKA and the Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH), a Turkish nongovernmental organization (NGO), has been educating Somali students since 2012. The project has been undertaken by the Anatolian Faculty of Agriculture in Somalia, since the previous academic year. More than 50 students completed their first year of the project, which is now being carried out as an Applied Farmer Training Course. According to the statement, the project, which began by giving practical lessons to the trainees through courses, graduated 500 students at the end of its second year. The students of the Somalia Agriculture School trained in applied courses for sowing seeds, watering and irrigating, applying pesticides, harvesting and recycling seeds.
More than 150 different seeds brought from Turkey were sowed in the garden that was created exclusively for the project. Following the training, various vegetables and fruits, such as gherkin, pepper, arugula, purslane, parsley, melon and eggplant, were introduced for the first time to the people of Somalia. It was also announced that Somalis were introduced to eggplant for the first time, as it had not been grown in their country previously. The first eggplants grown in the project's garden are now being sold at markets in Somalia.
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