Support has stopped but I know we can change that! The emergencies are daily and getting worse for these families, but we can help.
Recently, you’ve helped them with healthcare, shelter, flour/tinned food. This is life-preserving work that you’re doing. Nothing to feel hopeless about 🩷
We’re at 619/1900 by Friday to continue: https://chuffed.org/project/hope-giving-circle
Can’t give? Spread the word! https://linktr.ee/hopegivingcircle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that their campaigns are extremely stagnant and wanted to find a way to direct steady help to them. We distribute your contributions equally every week for sustainable support.
@PermaSolarPotter This is a test of my memory.
The top bunch is Selom/ Water celery (Oenanthe javanica). I can't recall what the lower bunch of leaves is, but I think it came from a tree. The mixed up veges were beansprouts (the white stuff) and fern fiddleheads mixed in with chillies and coconut shavings, this is a type of Kerabu, a Thai influenced salad.
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I've never tried roselle leaves, but I've grown it before for the fruit.
Cassava leaves are very nice when cooked in coconut milk.
Mango, papaya and mulberry leaves are eaten raw in Southeast Asia. Mango is taken with chilli pastes (sambal) to get rid of the sap, papaya is very bitter but can be boiled in salt to reduce the bitterness.
Once in lab meeting someone mentioned a fly gene and one of my coworkers turned to me expectantly. I said, What? and he wanted to know details about it and I said, There are like 18,000 fly genes, I don't know them all by name.
(But that one I did, to my mild annoyance, and he gave me a smug smirk when I told him what it does.)
My recent challenge for our giving circle, which supports 6 families + a mutual aid team serving 15 more in a displacement camp, is to get more of our weekly goal covered by bold folks who click "weekly" on the cost of a cup of coffee. It means reliable support for these families to eat in SO much uncertainty.
And....we're up to 23%, yall 💚 Almost all just a cup of coffee.
Small, steady, sustainable. It's how we free each other. Join in: https://chuffed.org/project/hope-giving-circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that their campaigns are extremely stagnant and wanted to find a way to direct steady help to them. We distribute your contributions equally every week for sustainable support.