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Showing all posts by tag "hope"

4 Reasons to Support Our Neighbors During Advent*

December 1^st, 2023

Planting Hope

Since 1985, UCOM has been in the trenches, right in the thick of the fight against the root causes of poverty. Will you or have you joined us in this place that is sometimes ugly and hard and where people are suffering hurts that feel impossible to bear?

This is...

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Plant, Water, Weed, Repeat

April 2^nd, 2022

“Plant, water, weed, water, weed, weed, water, weed…” That’s what Trisha Belbot, UCOM’s Growing Green Neighbors Manager, replied when I asked her how to have a successful garden.

Then she added, “Know what you are doing and harvest at the right time....