Empower 175 students for food security in Kenya

The schools polytechnics have had a good but busy 3^rd term.  The term was very short and the agribusiness club members had to work extra hard to balance their course work and the project activities.  They did not have much to do on the gardens as most of them have harvested their crops before breaking for August holiday while others harvested between August and September.  They were all excited to have their own products from their school gardens project which motivated them a lot and most of them have established kitchen gardens in their homes.  They are also training others on how to establish kitchen gardens as well as school gardens in secondary and primary schools.  We appreciate their efforts and we keep encouraging them and supporting them where possible.  There were plans to conduct trainings on value addition and marketing as earlier reported, but due to tight schools’ program and short term, we did not manage but we hope to do so in next term when we will also be integrating new club members.  Most of them will be closing school next week for their long December holiday.  As usual they have shared duties and responsibilities for their projects during the long December holiday.  We take this opportunity for the support given to our youths and we are happy when we see them progressing and making efforts to achieve their goals.

Our Youth Polytechnics are now preparing to close school after a long successful 2nd term and they will break for August holiday. We are happy to report that the term has been great and we thank God for everything. We have had plenty rainfall and the school gardens have been a good source of fresh organic vegetables for all the schools and students have been enjoying them in their school lunch program. Some youth polytechnics have been selling the surplus and the demand has been very high. Molo Youth Polytechnic agribusiness club members were able to finance themselves to participate in Nakuru Agricultural show where they were able to learn more on farming and marketing skill. They used the money they earned after selling their farm products and this has really motivated them as they realized they can do greater things on their own. We were able to conduct training on value addition and marketing in 3 youth polytechnics and we hope to do the rest next term if the schools’ program will allow. As they break for August holiday this week, as usual they have made a duty rooster that they will follow to ensure a group of club members is in school to take care of the garden and in some schools make sales of the vegetables they have in their gardens. Some of them have harvested some crops there is not much to be done.