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from team discussions and summarised by May Darli Maung and Saw Bo Hein

က်ေနာ္တို႔ဆီက ထုတ္ကုန္ေတြကိုအိမ္အေရာက္ပို႔ေပးတဲ့အတြက္ customers ေတြအတြက္အခ်ိန္ကုန္ လူပင္ပန္းမႈကို သက္သာေစပါသည္။ သူတို႔က်ေနာ္နဲ႔ရင္းႏွီးမႈခ်စ္ခင္မႈေတြ အေျပာအဆို အေတြ႔အၾကံဳေတြ မ်ားစြာရရိွသည္။ တစ္ပိုင္တစ္ႏိုင္ organic စိုက္ပ်ိဳးေရးကို ေရ႐ွည္ စိုက္ပ်ိဳးႏိုင္ရန္ အေထာက္အကူျပဳေပးသည္။ သန္႔႐ွင္းလတ္ဆတ္ေသာ အသီးအရြက္ေတြကို အခ်ိန္နဲ႔တေျပးညီပို႔ေပးႏိုင္တဲ့အတြက္ ပုတ္သိုးပ်က္စီးျခင္းမရိွဘဲ က်န္းမာေရးနဲ႔ ညီၫြတ္စြာ ခ်က္ျပဳတ္စားေသာက္ႏိုင္သည္။ မီးဖိုေခ်ာင္စြန္႔ပစၥည္းမ်ားကို စနစ္တက် စြန္႔ပစ္တတ္လာတယ္   ဟင္းသီးဟင္းရြက္အက်န္မ်ားကုိ Compostျပဳလုပ္ရန္ စနစ္တက်စုေဆာင္းတတ္လာတယ္   လယ္သမားေတြကုိစားသုံးသူေတြက ပိုျပီးအေလးထားလာတယ္။ စားသုံးသူေတြနဲ႔ထုတ္လုပ္သူ အျပန္အလွန္ေလးစားမႈပိုရွိလာတယ္။ သန္႔႐ွင္းေသာ ဟင္းသီးဟင္းရြက္မ်ား ကိုပံုမွန္စားသံုးႏိုင္ေသာေၾကာင့္ အဟာရျပည့္ဝၿပီးက်န္းမာစြာမိသားစုနဲ႔ေနထိုင္ႏိုင္မွာျဖစ္သည္။  

How does our CSA* improve our members lives? Well, first of all, we use a home delivery system so it saves time for the consumers. While delivering the vegetables, both the farmers and customers get a chance to communicate and share experiences to each other. Consumers develop habits of healthy lifestyle as they receive fresh vegetables regularly. Moreover, consumers also learn to compost effectively from the leftover kitchen wastes. Overall, CSA act as a connector between farmers and consumers and it improves the lives of the members by saving their time, improving their quality of life, and supporting sustainable organic farming. 

*'CSA' stands for Community Supported Agriculture or is otherwise known as a veggie box membership. 

By Sophia

I’d like to think that most people who come into contact with Kokkoya all hold a shared concern for our environment. There is a lot of news nowadays that could easily make anyone feel panicky, hopeless and helpless about the future. This is the one topic that has risen again and again in our discussions and day-to-day conversations both inside Kokkoya and outside.

Last week we stumbled upon this essay by James Allen and I think he has offered us a kind of answer to the pressing question ‘what can I do to help?’ I would like to share this essay and in particular this quote-

“The viability of our civilisation is uncertain. While opening our eyes means we’ll confront darkness, keeping them shut means it’ll stay dark. Let’s dare to look and start building new worlds alongside the old.”

Read the full article here. 

I believe what we are trying and doing now is, in the writer’s words, building rafts alongside the big ship. Fingers crossed that we are going to build some strong ones.

In March, we challenged our members to undertake a waste audit with us!

We have the data collected and looking fun in some charts! Find out how many plastic bottles, bags and other categories we throw out in one week.