11月6日VOA聽力：肯尼亞牧民栽種抗旱樹木
Early morning in Samburu.
Ten-year-old Arlha Lenguris is having her only mealof the day, porridge mixed with cooking oil, beforeheading out to tend to her father's herd of goats.
Her father, Mark Lenguris, earns about 100 a month.
The family's diet mainly consists of rice, polenta andbeans.
It's what they can afford and what's available.
Samburu gets low rainfall throughout the year.Drought is common.
Herders can travel more than a 160 kilometers in search of green pasture.
"The grazing ground for camel, cattle and sheep is just so scarce so that's why I've thoughtof some options of farming because there's no ground to graze nowhere to take our animals tofeed grass."
Lenguris started planting fruit trees about a year ago as part of a U.N.-funded initiative bySadhana Kenya.
Today, they plant Moringa Stenopetela.
Its leaves can be eaten raw or cooked and are good sources of calcium, iron and other keyvitamins, like A and C.
“In an area like this, there needs to be more food production, a greater diversity, and withmore trees they can provide it, especially food-producing trees that we plant.
With greater diversity, comes greater diversity of nutrition that's available, and healthierpeople.”
They are planting other trees also indigenous to the region that need little water, like Africanoak and desert date trees.
The community expects its first harvest in about a year.
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