Teach a Girl: Change the malnutrition of a family. 150 Maya Girls will learn how to grow kitchen gardens at schools that will provide space, seeds, tools and supplies to learn to grow vegetables to eat and sell. Girls who live in poverty in town do not have access to the agriculture land in the mountains. Parents will send girls to school to learn to grow food.
There is no local community resource to teach gardening skills to girls. As they become young mothers they are trapped in a cycle of poverty with no resources to learn the kitchen gardening skills required to grow food for the family and to sell in the market.
School Gardens for Girls: Many people think that in the school you only learn inside the classroom. The school grounds can be a resource to grow food to improve the diet and health of the school girls. The school garden is a place to learn the detailed steps to grow and care for growing and selling vegetables and learn about nutrition. The School Garden is a place for enjoyment and recreation with flowers, shrubs, shade, play areas and places where meals are shared.
150 Girls who know how to raise vegetables in small urban spaces will bring hope for their futures as contributors to the family nutrition and income from selling vegetables in the market. Asphalt, dry land, mud and wasteland will become green connecting earth, sky, water and sun in small plots and containers for growing nutritious vegetables, grass spaces for games and areas of study. The school gardens will lead these community changes.
This project has provided additional documentation in a DOCX file (projdoc.docx).
