In today’s world of rarely seen positive change in such diverse areas as the environment, nutrition, education and peoples' livelihoods, School Garden Projects stand out as one clear example of an initiative able to measurably raise a child's overall well-being and general life prospects. In view of this profound success, we take pride in our in progress support of the establishment of an operated garden project at St. Moses School in Ghana - our first!!!
The garden project at St Moses School is implemented according to a model developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization. Key to this model is a requirement for a school's students and educative team to be in full charge of the garden from initial planning through to ongoing success. Accordingly, students at St. Moses will be involved in all school garden project decisions right from the outset. With the garden now a reality, students have transitioned to being responsible for managing all school garden activities, recording and reporting events, problem solving unforeseen issues, leading discussions and becoming Garden Project Ambassadors. Though unfamiliar initially, the role as ambassadors will come quickly as they reached out to promote the garden project and its bounty to their world beyond the school – in this case, the Chorkor community.
The ultimate goal is for the students to facilitate the setting-up of small self-managed gardens both at home and throughout their community. In this way, all members of the community and the community itself will make clear self-evident gains in health, self-worth/pride, nutrition, knowledge, community cohesion, wealth, independence and their local environment.
For more information regarding the different steps of the school garden club implementation and evolution, please refer to http://www.fao.org/docrep/012/i1118e/i1118e00.htm
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