Progress at the JTP

Jean Marie visited the JTP recently and found that 95% of the cuttings the farmers planted have germinated. This is great news and provides us with an excellent start. The picture below is of one of the seedlings that were planted and the second photo is of a cutting.

Here is an update from Jean Marie:

This Wednesday, I just returned from visiting the Cibitoke JTP. It was the first unique and longest trip. I left home at 08h00; when I reached the bus, I waited for almost 3 and half hours for the bus to be filled with passengers and take us to Cibitoke. I reached the JTP at 13h30. All the seedlings grow and look healthy and nice. Some of the cuttings did not germinate; around 95% germinated and look nice as well.

The average size of the plants which came out of the seeds, this means the average size of the seedlings is 13 cm to 18 cm.

I left the plantation at 14h00 after talking with workers; then took a bike to the bus station. I entered into the bus and spent 1h30 before the bus was able to take us to Bujumbura, after the last passenger getting into it.

What also pleasing is to see the orange trees that were planted during our project “Raise up a New generation: Our children for peace, human rights, development and reconciliation”

One of these trees has a unique story. It has many oranges as you can see on the pictures. Its owner had never sold any oranges at the market; but one buyer bought if from him at 150 $USA; after a short period, another buyer bought it from the first one at 180$USA; then the third bought 250$USA. The tree still belongs to its original owner.

Lastly, I have been working on some ideas regarding clean water projects. I will provide an update on that in the next few weeks.

John

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“Truly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is going to happen, it will be granted him. Therefore I say to you, all things for which you pray and ask, believe that you have received them, and they will be granted you.” Mark 11:23-24