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| We are now actively working with 6 schools with a total school enrollment of almost 6000 students!!!! |
Each school garden programme develops at a different pace, but with 4 school vegetable gardens and 2 more in the planning and digging stages its is still very exciting to see how it all grows. The photo montage will show you how things have progressed...
We have also had a few very pleasant surprises recently - we were fortunate to have had some Duke of Edinburgh Award volunteers come and assist the Year 7 Agriculture Class at Freshwota School to prepare their garden patch and the first school we started working with has been growing more varieties of vegetables and developing additional school vegetable gardens.
Furthermore, we are in discussion with an INGO to develop a nutrition training programme to roll out into the schools that we are working with - that is another exciting development that we never intended when we started out on this amazing project....hope to have some pics next post.
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| Vila East School, from this...... |
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| ...to this... It's the same garden 2 months later! Some of the veges have already been harvested and used in the school canteen. The school has replenished with new seedlings! Awesome! |
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| ...and these fantastic little bean babies!!!! The Vila East students made seed raising pods using toilet rolls that are now growing beans in the school garden. |
Vila Central School Year 8 Agricultural Class getting stuck into planting out the seedlings in their garden. Its the biggest garden so far with approximately 200 seedlings and 10 packets of seeds. Their next step is to build a seed raising house which the project will fund.
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| One of the schools reestablishing their vegetable garden in among the remnants of their pre-cyclone garden. |
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| Excellent assistance from the Australian Duke of Edinburgh Award volunteers in the garden... |
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| ......and learning a bit more about Vanuatu. |
POST SCRIPT...TVL have advised that the Ultimate Survivor event raised almost 500,000 vatu (NZD$6800/AUD$6150/Euro 4150) to be used by this project- WOW - WOW -WOW!!!
