Help for self-help

The “Vegetables in a Pot” project supported by Project Burma is making waves. More and more people want to take part and learn how to grow vegetables in a pot so that the meager rice meal is enhanced and becomes healthier.

This project not only puts vegetables on the table, but also empowers women in the communities, making them more self-confident and open to communication. The weekly workshops also serve to enable women to share with each other and not to be alone with their concerns.

Some of the women have also been trained as trainers, receive a small salary and that makes them proud. This has even encouraged them to say something about the project on live television.
A television crew has already been on site twice and filmed. The report was later broadcast on online television and is now attracting attention beyond Yangon.

The aim is to implement this project in other poor neighborhoods in Yangon.