Mushroom campaign update
25 Mar 2010 09:50 pm
With your support The Thai Children’s Trust has erected 8 mushroom huts in the past year at Burmese Migrant schools in Thailand.
The aim of this campaign was to supply the children at Burmese Migrant schools with protein in their diet. Refugee children are vulnerable to malnutrition, especially since the schools cannot fund regular school lunches.
The campaign got off to a good start and all mushroom houses produced great crops. The children were all delighted to have a new ingredient in their school lunches. All schools with a mushroom shed have now begun to manage their crops and are selling surplus mushrooms in the local community; this will give them enough money to buy the next stock of spore bags and educational materials.
We are also pleased to announce that the initial £400 to set up a mushroom shed is now enough to allow us to double up the number of spore bags, which will mean 1000 per shed (2000 in Hsa Thoo Lei) which should smooth the production and produce a more reliable surplus for sale.
The next stage of this campaign is to set up catfish tanks and chicken runs in the schools that are already managing a mushroom huts. Initially we will set up the catfish tanks at £88. This will help further mitigate the serious lack of protein in the children’s diets.
We need to find funds for about another 50 huts!
Thanks again to all of you that have added a new ingredient to these children’s lives.
If you would like any further information please do contact us.