By Daphne Davies | Volunteer Journalist
In our latest video, John Donald Sandy, CEO of the We Are the Future school and centre in Freetown, Sierra Leone, explains how the Kitchen Garden project goes from planting seeds to harvesting fresh vegetables and feeding 230 children. Over the last three years the school has provided 165,000 meals, which are mostly produced from the vegetables grown in the garden.
Not only is the project providing a healthy meal every day for malnourished children at the school, but it is also training young men to work in the school garden. In an area with very high unemployment 10 young people are employed as gardeners, and any food which is left over is sold to local people to help pay their wages.
John Donald Sandy wants to build another greenhouse and buy a pump to help irrigate the garden, so they can increase production. In the long run we aim to open a training centre for young gardeners and to help other schools to set up gardens all over Sierra Leone and Africa.
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