Nuns help Vietnamese farmers adapt to climate change
Sister Mary Vu Thi Ngoc, head of the climate change group that was established in 2010, visits a farm in Huong Thuy District on July 20.
Seven years ago, Truong Thi Hat cultivated cassava on a 3,000 square-meter farm that yielded poor harvests due to drought, floods, and termites at Quang Tho village in central Vietnam.
She also had to trade in second-hand clothes to earn extra money while her husband worked at construction sites.
Hat's seven-member family lived in a 12-square-meter ramshackle house, was often short of food and owed six million dong (US$265) to a bank. "At that time we did not know what to do to improve our lives," Hat said.
Adam Cohn