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Technical notes for trainers
When preparing the training program, the two trainers shall decide how to divide the work. This shall be based on each trainer's technical expertise as well as his/her practical experiences and training skills. Prior to conducting each training session, the trainers shall read and understand the technical notes and set out a program of activities. The trainers' jobs are to structure and facilitate rather than to instruct and deliver information. Trainers shall initiate discussions and then draw the field workers into those discussions. During the technical sessions, field workers shall share their ideas, experiences and expertise. With the technical notes as background material, the trainers shall present the objective of the training program and the key topics that will be covered, then initiate a discussion and encourage field workers to share their own knowledge and experiences. At the beginning of each session, a trainer shall state the session's objectives, and at the end of each session, summarize the main points of the session. The trainers need to use a wide range of training methods, such as formal classroom presentations, discussion rounds, household and field visits, group work, role-playing, case studies and participatory household appraisals of the food and nutrition situation.

Notes on field visits
For household and field visits, the trainers shall have to identify households with different types of gardens,using those with well-developed and those with not-well-developed home gardens as a basis for comparison. It is obviously an advantage when field workers and trainers can speak the local language and thus facilitate communication. Discussions among members of household and field workers shall be participatory. This means that field workers shall find out, together with the community and household, when and why a household performs certain gardening-related activities. In this way, the field workers shall develop an overview of indigenous growing patterns and technologies, and food production, storage, processing and consumption practices and habits. Sessions shall end with discussions of those areas considered problematic, and how those problems can be resolved or alleviated by households or the community However, CHACO Home Garden shall encourage communities have heifers, poultry, goat, and Bee keeping in addition to crop husbandry. A multi-purpose resource center shall be constructed where the Internet point shall be installed for knowledge on better farming methods
Community Development
We have a long-standing commitment to community initiatives. Our programs help rebuild neighborhoods, instill community pride, build self-esteem, and re-humanize urban environments. Community gardens provide a source of food, add aesthetic value, encourage physical activity, help preserve cultural identity and, most importantly, cultivate neighborhood relationships.
For more information try the following:
1. Rationale, Goal, Objective and Motto 
2. Mission Statement and Aim 
3. Strategy, Activities, Outputs and Targets,  
4. Timetable, Budget and Implemantation Stratey 
5. Survey 
6. Plant-Based Education, Resource Centre, Course Materials, Information Sheet, Technology Leaf 
7. What is the Purpose of Training and Who Should Participate 
8. -Who should dotraining? -What are Field Workers Training Needs? -What is the Duration of Training? - Where Shall Training be Conducted? 
9. What Materials are Needed? and Follow up Action 
10. Technical Notes For Trainers, Notes on Field Visits and Community Development 
11. Funding Sources, Membersip, and Teacher Professional Development;