Worms for composting - £12
This is definitely one of our most unusual and original gifts – worms. Our wriggly friends are extremely good for soil, not least because they can turn animal droppings into fertile compost. This natural fertiliser is cheap to produce and easy to sustain, and combined with new farming techniques, it is a wonderful and enviromentally friendly way of boosting crop production for poor rural farmers without buying costly chemical fertilisers.
This gift is also available as one of our Kid's gifts, which come with a free kid's fun sheet, jam-packed with games, jokes and an illustrated story to colour in.
Purchase options
Buy Worms for composting and add a Notecard gift set as a little extra present for them to unwrap – or even as a goodie for you!
Bolivia is the poorest country in South America. In the highlands, farmers face severe frosts and struggle to grow crops on small plots of dry, overworked land. Many people migrate from such rural areas to the cities to escape poverty and malnutrition.
CAFOD partner CIPE is helping farmers in the Potosí area in the highlands to improve vegetable production. One of the ways this is done is by providing worms for composting, which is a cheap and sustainable way of growing more and better crops.
CIPE is also providing training in marketing and book keeping and encouraging families to work together to market their produce.
In other parts of Bolivia people like Catalina Pascual Villca are already benefiting from improved vegetable production. Catalina is now growing enough vegetables for her family and still has some left over to sell. The money from the vegetables can pay for medicines, clothes and school books.
