Indigenous children grow their own School Garden

Growing our food is Fun!

Our school garden started with motivation from the children, but especially from us!

We coordinated this initiative as a response of the school director and her interest to improve children´s nutrition and development. We also talked to the children to understand their own motivations, and we found out they were eager to learn new skills and to include a more creative and dynamic approach during this process. Throughout the planning with teachers and children we realized school materials were lacking, so we provided pens, cardboards and notebooks to support their learning process too.  

Activities meant to both inspire children to participate in the development of the school garden, along with motivating them to take ownership of their nutrition and overall decisions. Together we chose the crops, marked the area and planted the seeds. Through this community garden, children learned necessary skills to plant, grow and harvest crops, as well as social and creative skills. After each working day we all shared different fruits like mango, pineapples, watermelon, papaya, to which some of them they could later on harvest by themselves.

Harvesting is fun!

Eating fruits & vegetables is fun, too!

Harvesting is still on going together with the teachers support and we are waiting for the next planting season to re start our School garden. We hope you continue supporting us with this initiative to grow bigger our School Garden.

Thank you for all,

The Alianza Arkana Team

Links:

• http://www.alianzaarkana.org
• https://www.facebook.com/AlianzaArkana/