Project Report
| Nov 11, 2024
Veggies are on the menu
By Tyler | School Lead
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Children enjoying the veggie garden
Hello!
Sadly this year we have not been able to fund a new veggie garden for a school as funding has been a real struggle, we have around $2,000 ready and we just need another $1,500 then we will have enough to build a garden that will feed 160 children daily with fruit and veggies.
We have had to prioritise feeding programs this year as we provide around 15,000 meals a day around the world and it has been a real struggle but we are always trying to build long term sustainability and this is why this program is so important to us, each veggie garden we have build within 18 months is providing enough fruit and veg it cuts the school shopping bill by around 50-76% which is incredible!
A Gift to this program we know doesn't show immediate impact but the long term is incredible and we value the support you give us!
Thank you
Tyler
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Jul 10, 2024
Sustainable Dinner through Sustainable Lessons
By Tyrone Bennett | CEO of Action Change
Dear Friends and Family,
It's been a busy few months and donations have slowed down rather a lot over the past few months therefore we have not been able to expand our work and create more veggie gardens but we have been able to use the funds donated to ensure we plant and look after our current veggie gardens.
In South Africa we have hit planting season and so we decided to partner up and take our grade 5 students out to the veggie garden and get them to plant and learn about this sustainable food source, we also ran lessons around soil and growing techniques that they can take home to their family.
In our pre-school we had some visitors from Ohio State University in the USA, these students worked with the children to install small veggie gardens and classroom pots for each student to learn to grow and look after their own veggie. They also provided a lesson plan and brought a laptop to show the children some eco-videos and songs to make the lessons more interactive and fun.
Since this we have had a lot of requests for us to bring these lessons to other township pre-schools and primary schools and the team are really excited about this but we can only begin this once we raise the funds
Thank You,
Tyrone
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Mar 1, 2024
Veggies for Lunch?
By Tyrone Bennett | CEO
Dear Supporters!
Can you believe it is already approaching the end of February and this is our first update! Our office time has been limited but the plus side of this is that we have been out and about every day working with the community and we are making some exciting moves forward already in this new year.
Remember the African school we built a huge veggie garden, this garden is feeding around 250 people but we could do more if we had a reliable power supply. In South Africa we have had a shortage of power for the past 10 years and as such our lovely government feels rather than deal with the issue they will simply cut our power for up to 11 hours every day to share the power we have. During this time we come to a stand still and what is more our irrigation pumps stop working, this regular stopping causes them to malfunction and break therefore we are replacing parts regularly and our garden is lacking water. It's a real catch 22 for us right now.
We have teamed up with another action change project and we have secured some amazing solar panels along with a pump inverter so we can take this veggie garden 100% offgrid and remove another running cost with renewable power. We are so excited but we need to purchase lots of tools, cables and fund an electrician to set us up. From 8th April GlobalGiving are running Little X Little which means all donations of up to $50 will be matched so we appeal to our amazing supporters once again that id you can donate to us during this week please save the date and little by little we can make a difference.
Thank You
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