In the wake of soaring food prices, Alliance for Change (AFC) members with support from private and religious organizations yesterday handed out a variety of vegetable seedlings to Sophia families and community groups to promote farming.

The AFC said the initiative, titled ‘Seeds of Change’ aims at helping residents to empower themselves in the wake of rising food prices. The project was officially launched at the Pattensen Community Centre. Sophia residents were the first to benefit from the distribution of pepper, pak choy, eggplant, celery, pigeon peas and calaloo seedlings but the programme will be extended countrywide. The overall objective of the project is to deliver a minimum of 25,000 vegetable plants and seeds to needy households……