The Organic Classroom Program in South Africa

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Summary

SEEDs Organic Classroom Program partners w/ under-resourced schools for three years. The exit strategy ensures a sustainable Permaculture system for food security and a living laboratory for teaching. progress reportread updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

25% of learners come to school too hungry to learn. Township schools resemble deserts. Learners are affected by the pressures of unemployment (drug abuse, gangs). There is little inspiring input around them. There is the need to create a healthy learning environment, to supplement diets with nutritious food and to educate and provide food security skills. There is a need for social gardening, where learners gain esteem and hope through the metaphor of transformation in gardening.

Activities

SEED transforms learning through Permaculture. Teachers are supported to link all on-ground work to teaching practice. SEED builds outdoor classrooms and relevant productiver Permaculture systems as delivery of Outcomes Based Education.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $106
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $49,121
Total Funding Goal: $49,227

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

This project has the potential to change whole communities as it works with clusters of schools and thus the effects are multiplied. This project gets communities working positively together to provide for their needs (food, community, education).

Project Message

“I now understand what we need to do – we should not grow food gardens around schools, but build schools in food gardens.”
- Kevin Pretorious, SEED Principal, Rocklands Primary

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Leigh Brown,
Co-founder & director
SEED
PO Box 350
Stanford, 7210
South Africa
27 3410 735
Email:

Project Sponsor

Rob Small

Organization

SEED
P.O. Box 40
Phillipi
Cape Town, Western Cape 7781
South Africa
021 371 3180
http://www.seed.org.za

Learn more about SEED and the project team.



Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in South Africa and can also be found under Education.

For more information about South Africa, read the Human Development Report on South Africa or the Wikipedia entry for South Africa.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on June 24, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on January 09, 2008.

Latest Update from the Field

seeds new online permaculture game

By leigh brown - seed coordinator, March 11, 2008 06:38 PM

Seed has just launched its new online game. The aims of this game are to impart the basics of Permaculture Design and of course to have fun.
Please play and we welcome feedback!
Go to our website and then to the Permaculture Design Game tag.

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