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Jeffrey Town Farmers

Association.

PATHWAY TO RESILIENCE Established 1991and started the path towards resilience then with water for the community.

Regular meetings and group farming.

Registered in 2003

Pathway to Resilience Wordsworth Gordon JTFA May 11 2012

Composting with worms from 2007


Continual contouring on the hillsides

Above 2008, Right 2012


Planting trees on the hillside as part of

a twelve acre tree planting programme

2007/2009


Constructing the JTFA Building

Breaking ground April 2006

Moved into basement 2007 and opened internet café, commenced community computer classes

Ground floor complete 2008 and launched radio

Installed broadband internet and

Hybrid alternative energy package late 2009

Pathway to Resilience

Wordsworth Gordon JTFA May 11 2012

Upgrading the alternative energy

package 2012

Supported by Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme


Jet FM 88.7 the community radio

Operating continually since May 2008, sixteen hours daily with only volunteer labour

Adding resilience through radio programmes made in house which speak specifically to the issues of the day- Health, Climate Change, Disaster Preparedness and Education


Training

In ICT’s, multimedia and radio production

In the work of maintaining an organization, business management

and project writing

A myriad of farming techniques

Gabion wall construction

Organic farming

Pathway to Resilience

Wordsworth Gordon JTFA May 11 2012

Organic Farming

Establishing a five

acre demonstration plot

Featuring Broccoli and Strawberries in

the green house A compost platform

and Mushroom house to come


Clearing the gullies from the ponds


Inserting the Culvert at Wallingford


The 75 Basket Gabion Wall at

Wallingford


Adding resilience through search and

rescue techniques


A cadre of 22 trained first aiders


Creating an

‘Avenue of Pride’

Planting trees on the roadsides

500 trees already planted as part of a fifteen acre reforestation package


Thank You

To all the: funders, trainers, supporter, friends and volunteers who have helped to make the Jeffrey Town ‘Pathway to Resilience’ an on going reality.

See you all at the St. Mary Breadfruit Festival July 15 2012


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