With the help of LDS Charities and welfare service missionaries, local priesthood leaders among the Navajo and Hopi peoples are teaching principles of self-reliance and provident living through gardening.

A Desolate Land Blossoms

A woman’s health is improved as she learns how to grow vegetables in a container garden.

Bolivia Container Gardens

Because of the high altitude and cold climate, it is difficult for the people of the Andes to grow vegetables. With the help of the Church, families are able to grow vegetables in subterranean greenhouses.

Bolivia Underground Greenhouses

LDS Charities provides training and supplies for families in Bolivia to grow vegetables, improving their health and overall quality of life.

Bolivia—Container Garden Project

In Kenya, 80 percent of the food is grown on small family farms. LDS Charities is helping these smallholder farmers by partnering with One Acre Fund to teach them better techniques.

Care to Share: Helping Farmers in Kenya

For members living in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Church has provided training on growing cassava and processing flour.

Cassava Fields

The Benson Institute of the Church Welfare Department helps people in impoverished rural areas of third-world countries. It teaches about improving agricultural practices, raising small animals, and practicing good nutrition and basic hygiene.

Ecuador Food Production

Members of a small branch in the Philippines seek inspiration to build self-reliance and strengthen individuals and families in their area.

Seeking Inspiration to Build Self-Reliance

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