Description
The ’town pantry’ role of the farms has disappeared nowadays. On the other hand, some of the urban residents would like to run a farm because of subsistence reasons but their knowledge is inadequate to do so. The aim of the project therefore is to promote community life and household farming; to integrate indebted families into communities and start them to become farmers. Another goal is to bring together the supply of farms and the demand of the cities. In the long run, the project aims to give practical assistance for families in farming. (Direct target group: 12 families, indirectly: 60 families). Because of the changed living conditions and unpayable loans, these families would move to farms in hope of a better life. The project also aims to give real assistance these people to get over and start farming. The project popularizes community farming; for 12 urban families and 60 people living in groups of homesteads.
Summary of project results
Poverty affects more and more families in Nyíregyháza and in the surrounding boondocks. These farms used to be the store-rooms of the city. With the help of the project a free counselling service has been launched. The initiation seems to be sustainable because of the voluntary nature of the actions. The aim of the project is to promote community life and backyard farming among bush farms. The members of the target group started to admit the work of the NGO. The applicant NGO gained knowledge of what methods works best with the target group. The NGO now after that the project finished knows that achieving all the objectives is going to take more time, but they started to accomplish them through many activities that they organized for the target group. They held forums with many participants and counselling service for thirty times, they printed brochures and placed posters in order to introduce the project in the project-region. The members of the target group were involved in the activities . The main benefit of the project was that the granted NGO got new energies thus it become more confident in their objects.
Summary of bilateral results