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Gardens of hope
Down To Earth
|August 16, 2020
Krishna Mawasi and 230 other residents in Madhya Pradesh opened their kitchen gardens to vulnerable families to help them tide over the lockdown
I AM not the only one. I have heard there are many others like me, says Krishna Mawasi, who decided to share the entire harvest from her kitchen garden with neighbours and strangers alike during the COVID-19 lockdown. Mawasi is from the tribal village of Kailhora that falls in the highly malnourished Satna district in Madhya Pradesh. The kitchen garden is the primary source of nutrition for her family as they seldom have enough money to buy vegetables.
“Days after the lockdown, I visited a neighbour and saw they were eating only chapattis
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