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Pakistan Sisters Share Vegetables, Love Through Garden Bounty

Posted on September 1, 2019, by Nasreen Daniel SL

**Pakistani women proudly display garden produce.**
**Photo courtesy of Nasreen Daniel**

Loretto Mission and Values at Work — Since their return to Pakistan, every year the Loretto sisters grow different vegetables in their organic garden.They grow the vegetables to share with their neighbors who do not have enough to eat. The fertile Pakistan soil and good seeds provide an excellent environment for growing their vegetables.
**Photo courtesy of Nasreen Daniel**

Samina Iqbal shares vegetables with a local resident.
Photo courtesy of Nasreen Daniel

Every year we grow different vegetables and share them with our neighbors. Last year when I was at the Motherhouse, Nancy Wittwer very generously offered to help me to buy good seeds, which are now giving life and strength to many.

**Nasreen Daniel shares vegetables with a local resident.**
**Photo courtesy of Nasreen Daniel**

We never use any pesticides in our garden; it is organic. We are very lucky that we have fertile land and a keen interest in gardening.

It has been a Loretto practice since we moved to Pakistan that we grow vegetables and share them with those who do not have enough. We know which family needs our help, we call the mother to our house and give her the vegetables.

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Nasreen Daniel SL

Nasreen Daniel SL serves in her home country of Pakistan, along with Loretto Sisters Maria Daniel and Samina Iqbal. In 2009, they began Loretto’s Pakistan mission, initially working in Faisalabad. Since then, at the invitation of Bishop Sebastian Francis Shaw, they moved the Loretto mission to Lahore.

2 Comments

Hidayatullah Neakakhtar on November 28, 2020 at 9:35 pm

Appreciated activity and wanted to know which old variety of seeds (aabai tochum) are you using for cultivation?? Please send me the list of those kadeemi desi beej and NOT the farmi / bazari beej !!!

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- Loretto Community on November 30, 2020 at 5:04 pm
  
  Thank you for your inquiry. It has been forwarded to the appropriate parties.
  
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