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Let us take an example: 
 
One student of Fighting with the Poor has chosen to go to Gaza, to the community 
of Mohambe village, where also the Jacaranda Farm is situated. The student has 
investigated a number of families, their economy and their problems. He has 
confidently concluded that 15 poor families have a common problem with lack of 
production and lack of income and that they as a consequence are under-nourished 
and suffers health problems. But he has also seen that all these 15 families 
nevertheless are open to do things in new ways to lift themselves up. 
 
The student has found out that to produce sweet potatoes for own consumption and 
for sale might be a suggestion to go for. Sweet potatoes are healthy. They are well- 
known, but not sufficiently produced. The market price is sufficient to earn well on 
the production. So the student agrees with the Jacaranda Farm to donate plant 
material and use of a tractor to plow a piece of land, which the 15 families can 
share, each having a 15 th part in the production. He calculates whether &frac14; ha per 
family would make the sufficient difference, 4 ha in total. Each family could 
produce 2.5 tons of sweet potatoes from &frac14; ha, but planted over some weeks, so 
harvest will be spread out. 300 kg could be for own consumption and the rest for 
sale. Would such 2.2 tons sold for 12 Meticais per kilo make a difference? We talk 
about approximately 26,000 Meticais? That would certainly make a difference. But 
it should be part of an investigation of the families&rsquo; economic situation to find out 
the amount of cash and food that would make the decisive difference. 
 
Next the student goes to the local chief to find that piece of land, which could be 
suitable and close to water. After being convinced that the land is free for such a 
purpose, the student can call the 15 families for a meeting and there outline the 
proposal. 
 
Suppose that everybody is positive and willing, the student sticks to the whole 
thing, organizes the tractor from the Jacaranda Farm, get advice from the farms 
expert grower on the harvesting of the plant material, the planting plan, the exact 
days, the irrigation and how to secure that, the guarding of the land &hellip; all questions 
and obstacles, he will be there and share his advice in the overcoming of the 
obstacles right to the harvesting and marketing of the produce. 
 
Finally he concludes whether the families have embarked on the way to a 
permanent change of their conditions.

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