Donation Helps Villa Get a Weed Eater

Many people wonder why some areas of Villa often have three foot high weeds growing year round. The reason is not that the villagers enjoy having weeds growing or that they are lazy. The truth is that in the past the villagers would have to use machetes to cut down the weeds by hand. Just keeping the soccer field cut requires nearly 200 man hours of work. Recently a team of ten men had to spend nearly two days to cut the entire soccer field. Within a week some weeds had already grown nearly six inches. To keep all of Villa cut by hand would mean that an area of nearly 5 soccer fields would have to be maintained by hand. To help the villagers spend more meaningful time in their community than cutting down weeds, a weed eater was purchased with the help of a recent donation. Now the maintain can maintain their community in much less time. In just ten hours the entire soccer field can be cut, instead of the 200 hours that it previously required. While some people might doubt the necessity of keeping all of the community relatively weed free, the villagers understand that tall weeded areas are breeding grounds for mosquitoes (which can carry Dengue or Malaria) or hiding places for a number of poisonous snakes. For the safety of the village children, the areas must remain well maintained, which is now much easier for the community to do than before.