By William Day | Impact and Operations Officer
Dear friends, donors, and interested people,
In impoverished areas, one of the biggest barriers to acccessing education (beyond the existence of schools themselves) is food. If children can't get enough food and nutrition throughout the day it becomes difficult to focus in class given that they don't have enough energy, or vitamins & minerals to power them through the day. Our partner school in Costa Rica tackles this by maintaining a fruit and vegetable garden in the playground, providing tomatoes, mangoes, bananas, lettuce, and more to students: a vital lifeline for them all.
Currently the garden is a small, traditional soil-based setup, but in future we would like to expand this in one of two ways. The first option is to simply plant more vegetables across a larger patch of land, but the barrier to this is obvious - a lack of land to plant on. The second option is to implement an aquaponics system; this style of farming can produce an incredible amount more vegetables per square metre but is expensive to install. Therefore your donations are needed more than ever to help grow this project into something unrecognisable and truly self-sustaining.
Thank you for supporting us.
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