Madiana Market Gardens
The village
at Madiana is a very poor community struggling to survive. During one of our
visits the villagers explained to us how they were struggling to feed their
families as they had no land to farm to grow crops. With funding and support
from Project Gambia and our Gambian partners, 3 areas of land were fenced off.
These are now working market gardens. A variety of vegetables and fruit are
being grown including onions, bananas, sorrel and tomatoes. One of these
gardens is being farmed by an 83 year old woman from Mali, whilst the other 2
are farmed by widowers who, without the garden, would not have enough food. The
market gardens not only provide food for the local community but also provide
vegetables and herbs which are sold at the market. The money from these cash
crops is used to pay for their children to attend school.
