Kubunina,access to school to 70 Congolese children

Kubinina Program wants to aim an ambitious goal: regular access to primary school thanks to the sustainable development of parents schools garden.

A new local partner, Mazao NGO, specialised in social business, started an intensive monitoring of all Kubunina activities and a local technical support to get parents’ committees running autonomously. 

In May 2015 a new mission to Congo of Mazao’s coordinator, Chiara Trotto,  took place. The focus was centred on training courses for parents committees to strength their vegetables producing skills, their market analysis capabilities and to develop participatory calendar pointed to better plan their farming activities.

Thanks to a participatory approach (including participatory theatre session, creative activities, games and arts) all the committees problems have been explored and lots of the difficulties had been tackled; after the first picture of the committees worriers, very simple project management bases were given to the participants; a participatory market analysis were done in order to better orientate the following decisions of the committees and a yearly participatory agricultural planning on the base of the market analysis has been created in order to help parents/farmers to improve their income by using a yearlong market product analysis.

Finally a picture of the circular calendar were drawn on the school wall as a tool to remain for next years to orientate parents choices and decision about schools gardens as well as their own gardens.

Moreover a specific   theoretical and practical training session about Moringa properties and Moringa uses have been made in one site where Moringa Trees were planted in December 2014. Moringa has extraordinary properties concerning Malaria prevention and calcium and vitamin C concentration. That means an wonderful nutritional support to the poor diet of Congolese people. These represent a pilot experience that we would like to replicate in the future. 

These training courses gave the roots on which the work of the following months will be based.

Now the way to the sustainability is still long but a new seed have been put on the ground and added to the others that already constitute Kubunina programme give us the hope in a future self-development parents’ committees.

Now we need your support to the follow up activities. Parents committees need your help to put in practice what they learn in the course and to start to run autonomously in order to pay their children scholar fees.

A regular technical assistance is very essential in this phase, with your contribution we will be able to make the follow up of 2 schools garden of Kubunina Program, that means to pay the agronomist until the end of December, to purchase the sowing seeds and to purchase the 2 water manual pumps that are so necessary to the running of the activities especially in dry season.

Your present support: a long-lasting result!

Don’t wait, do it now and give the chance to a lifelong change!