The participants of the work therapy project collect the new harvest

For a third year, the municipal social service of the municipality of Rezekne, in cooperation with the Norwegian red cross and the Rēzekne Committee of Latvia, is implementing a work therapy project, as part of which the participants are allocated 83 EUROS for the establishment and maintenance of a small garden so that their forces can take stock of food supplies for winter.

“We give fishers, not fish,” said Sylvia Strankale, head of the municipal social service of Rezekne. “On the start of the project, we wanted not to provide social aid in the form of money, but to give people the opportunity to provide seed and work tools and to pay the technique because, as it is known, the most expensive is the processing of land.”

This year, the number of families participating in the project has doubled – if they were 12 families in the first years, 24 families from various parish of Rezekne municipality are currently involved in working therapy. “We bought a barrel, fertilizer, seeds, plantations and film about this money.” Similarly, the tractor had been in the garden for eight times, “said the spark-altar, who is already thinking about the extension of the garden: I have seen the good strawberry varieties we are planting in the autumn.” We will also increase the area of the potato field. '

Irina also used the money from THE Sakstagala parish project to provide seed and pay the tractor. Irina says that her children, the little Ta and Nikolai, who have planted beets and carrots, have been involved in the garden. The children have also been the largest assistants. “We wore the garden, took the herb, helped the peas to read, but to be clean around the garden, the little trimmers were regularly leaning on the edge of the garden,” said League and Gatis. As the head of the social service acknowledged, the joint involvement of all the families, especially younger generations, in the implementation of the project is the biggest benefit: “children learn a job and can feel proud that they have taken their hand to provide rural benefits and facilitate the family budget.”

The interest of families is very large, so it is expected that the project will continue in the coming years. The total funding of the project is EUR 2000, which is covered by the municipality of Rēzekne and the Norwegian red cross Oplandes Committee. In order to see how the families had been lucky this summer and how full they were in the cellar, in the end of August, the people of the Norwegian red cross would be visited in Rēzekne.

Madara Burtina,
Public relations specialist of the municipality of Rezekne
Photo: Eduard Medvedev