By Enrica Coppo | Project volunteer
The activities of school gardens and their vegetables production (eggplant, onions, peppers, cabbage, pumpkin, tomatoes ...) are going on.
In Kalemie, at the village of Tabac Congo, another school became part of the project and, in addition to beekeeping, was created a garden.
Congolese project partners, in collaboration with a local agronomist, are working with the parents to restore confidence in the project activities and to identify possible buyers of vegetable products (retailers, local civil and military authorities, families of international organizations…).
A correct enhancement of the market's products will be the goal on which will focus during the next months.
This activity is essential to ensure the sustainability of the initiative.
In the coming weeks we intend to distribute further agricultural tools of parents.
Alongside the gardens designed to income generating, other gardens, near the schools, will be set up to development a platform for learning about a lot of subjects: nutrition, environment, agriculture.
Next mission in RDC of the Italian team will be focus on a training course for the teachers of four congolese primary schools about this educational value of the gardens.
The teaching and educational value of the garden has to be found in many activities that the teachers can carry out with the pupils.
Educating through the tool of the school garden stimulates a multidisciplinary teaching approach, improving the school curriculum.
This approach integrates some of the other Kubunina activities creating important synergies for achieving the project objectives.
To this aim, the parents’ pupils involved in the initiative are preparing the ground to start a “educational”garden within each school that it will support the teaching.
Recently the teaching staff of secondary school (Agricultural Institute of Kisamba, 5 km from Kipaka) was expressed interest partecipanting at the training course on educational gardens and then to start this activity.
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