By Lucy Mathenge | Project Assistant
The dry spell prolonged more than it was expected and all school gardens were affected as students watering their crops carrying from their homes was not sustainable since water was also scarce in their homes. They didn’t have choice but to wait for the rains and fortunately in October there were some good rains and they were able to do water harvesting. They have now reestablished their gardens and they have new crops at the moment and they are optimistic that they will enjoy good harvest next year. The rains have continued and they have enough water for January when the dry spell begins and they are excited to have their own water tanks now with water not only for watering their gardens but also for general use in the school.
We are still fundraising for more water harvesting structures, simple irrigation kits and seeds for the other schools. Although students are on holiday, they have allocated duties among themselves to take care of their school gardens. We are happy that students are owning these projects thus confident of sustainability and change of the negative attitude towards farming/agriculture in general We will continue fundraising for this project and we thank all our well wishers for their kind contribution and we encourage and invite others to consider supporting this youth project. Be blessed all.
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