30 Jun 2021
Overall responsibility: To translate the Regional Strategic Plan into operational programs to ensure social transformation at country level.
Team Purpose: To help shape and implement AFSC strategic and operational priorities in México managing AFSC field and program officer.
Job Purpose: To provide leadership and guidance to the Program Team in México, development and implementation of the Program’s strategic plans; to act as a security focal point for AFSC in the country, managing the risks-threats resulting from program delivery, to serve as a backup, for the RPC in his/her absence; as a member of the Regional Management Team (RMT), to help shape AFSC work in México.
Farmers across Belize were negatively affected by hurricanes last November, which affected mostly their vegetable crops. The Horticulture Unit in Central Farm now seeks to ameliorate those effects with a boost in innovative technologies for the promotion of sustainable production systems.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security, and Enterprise, along with Mr. Fermin Blanco, OIRSA (Organismo Internacional Regional de Sanidad Agropecuaria) country representative, recently visited Central Farm to inspect vegetable seedlings.
A total of 18,000 seedlings will be distributed to farmers and producers at all levels, including backyard gardeners. The seedlings were donated as seeds by the OIRSA Regional Emergency Fund to assist vegetable farmers who were affected by the flooding caused by storms Eta and Iota.
Liberians Eulogized Father Robert Tikpor’s Legacy
Liberians Eulogized Father Robert Tikpor’s Legacy
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Monrovia – The Dean of Barbara Jordan Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs at Texas Southern University, George Klay Kieh, Jr. has described Catholic Priest Father Robert Tikpor as an iconic personality whose legacy against every form of societal vices in Liberia will never be forgotten in contemporary times.
Serving as guest speaker at the formal launch of the annual Father Robert Tikpor leadership award organized by the Grassroots Agency for Social Services (GRASS) at a local hotel in Monrovia over the weekend, the Liberian academician intimated that he is quite delighted that Dr. Tikpor is given his flowers, while he’s still alive.
Pandemic fallout could cause rise in child labour
Says lawmaker Mujibul Haque
Staff Correspondent
Staff Correspondent
The number of children in the labour market may increase due to the income reduction of people in the current Covid-19 pandemic, said lawmaker Md Mujibul Haque, who is also the chairman of the parliamentary standing committee of the Ministry of Labour and Employment yesterday. Currently, there are 152 million child labourers worldwide and 82 million is alone in the Asia-Pacific region. We have to work in coordination with the government and the private sector so that our progress in the elimination of child labour before Covid-19 is not diminished, he added.
Salazar, Nursery Manager
“Using regular soil which is sieved, soil and sand and humus. The soil is sieved, the sand as well. And Humus as you may know is castings from the worm that we grow here, the California worm. In this case we are using two parts of soil, one part of sand and half part of humus. We mix this together and that is how we are replacing a commercial product which we call the germinating mix.”
This process has saved the Ministry 60,000 dollars. Humus is the key component of this mix, and here at Central Farm there is an organic section filled with these California worms that digest cow manure to create the humus. The mix is then placed in trays. Tiny holes are created in each section of the tray. A single seed is then placed in each hole. Those trays are then placed in a green house, where they sit until they reach a stage fit for distribution to farmers.