1.0World Vision Advocacyhttps://www.worldvisionadvocacy.orgCassie Rollinshttps://www.worldvisionadvocacy.org/author/cpaulsen/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="oEa0FRdA1F"><a href="https://www.worldvisionadvocacy.org/foreignaid/milton-mudenda-world-vision-trained-model-farmer/">Milton Mudenda – World Vision-trained Model Farmer</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.worldvisionadvocacy.org/foreignaid/milton-mudenda-world-vision-trained-model-farmer/embed/#?secret=oEa0FRdA1F" width="600" height="338" title="“Milton Mudenda – World Vision-trained Model Farmer” — World Vision Advocacy" data-secret="oEa0FRdA1F" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); /* ]]> */ </script> https://www.worldvisionadvocacy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/D485-1072-252-scaled.jpg25601709Nine-year-old Joyce Moono proudly displays some of the greens that her family grows in their beautiful garden. Milton Mudenda, age 40, is struggling to provide for his family this year because of drought in southern Zambia. He lost money on maize, his usual cash crop. Even though he carried buckets of water to keep the crop alive, it wilted and died before it got chest-high. “We just pray to God that he will give us the means to eat,” says Milton. His other main concern is paying for school fees for his three oldest children. Milton belongs to a savings group, one of many World Vision organized in Moyo Area Program. He took out a loan to pay school fees for his eldest daughter, Fidus, when she was sent home from school. “We have a few chickens, but no goats or cows. If we receive goats from World Vision, that will be a great help to us,” Milton says. They are on the list to receive goats from World Vision’s animal-give-back program and hope to receive goats in about a month. “When we get goats, I will herd them, and I will keep them out of the garden. I like goats and I know how to do this,” says Milton’s daughter, Joyce, a 9-year-old sponsored child. This year, because of drought, their garden is more important to Milton’s family than ever before. “The best income we have now is gardening,” he says. Milton is a model farmer who trains others in high-yield agriculture that causes minimal disturbance to the soil. He received training from World Vision in 2011 and has farmed this way ever since. Milton was chosen by World Vision to be trained in a conservation farming method called Farming God’s Way, which comes from sponsorship under World Vision Zambia’s Sustainable Enterprises and Economic Development (SEED) program. “One difference with this method is you don’t have to clean the field, you just clear where you plant,” Milton says. There are rocks and grasses between his wide rows of tomatoes and greens. These serve as