Education is academic oriented and tailored towards white collar jobs. Many children come to school hungry or malnourished. Schools have land which is swept bare or is ornamental. Re-Scope will train school communities to use Permaculture to set up food forests to produce food for the children. Parents, teachers and learners at 3 schools will work together to create productive multi-purpose landscapes that will benefit 2000 children 30 teachers and hundreds of farmers around the schools
Most schools in Zambia are academic oriented, examination oriented ignoring the land around them. There is little interest in agriculture with people deep in rural areas depending on food markets and disconnected from nature.Some children go to school on an empty stomach to get equipped for unavailable jobs.The project will promote permaculture for food sovereignty. This school project will benefit school children, the teachers, farmers, and local organisations and community members .
Re-Scope will empower schools and communities by training them in permaculture, It includes effective processes for participatory design of the land for productive and sustainable use. In addition, the project will impact relevant areas of the school curricula. Selected children, teachers, trainers and community members are trained from the participating schools. There will be Increased organic food production with high yields from low inputs
2000 youth and 600 farmers will benefit from the project over three years. The trained 30 people from the 3 schools will act as trainers for the rest of the school communities. After 3 years the schools will have mixed food gardens and well conserved natural resources, They will also have rain water harvesting and waste recycling systems. The children will be involved in more creative learning and enjoy agriculture
This project has provided additional documentation in a DOCX file (projdoc.docx).
