Garden Project Ś The Best of Both

The Garden Project is the next project, and is to be implemented after the water project. Once the schools have a reliable water supply, the garden can start and be fully implemented.

Ghanaian schools are supposed to supply students with one nutritious meal a day. However the current circumstances make it difficult for the schools to do so, which causes many students to stay home and work on their farms to help out their parents.

The Garden Project aims to supply the schools with a garden, and along with that the training of students to take care of their gardens. This has several benefits. The skills learnt by these students would enable the students to transfer the skills they learn at school to the farms at home making farming more effective. Secondly the Garden Project would help provide the schools with the resources needed to make the school meals and enable the schools to become self-sufficient in providing these meals. Finally all extra resources grown at the schools can then be sold by the schools to produce further income for the school.

To ensure the succesful application of the Garden Project, it will be implemented in two steps. Firstly a food programme supplied by the World Food Programme (WFP) an organisation that is a part of the United Nations - will provide meals to the students in the schools.

The second step involves the installation of a garden in the schools with the help of Trax - a local Ghanaiain charity which helps set up gardens and train people in the upkeep of it.

This project will be funded by the 'Fill the Cup' campaign. This campaign is an initiative of the WFP and revolves around the WFP providing red cups to the students. To raise money, people will be given these red cups in which they collect loose change over a period of time. Nobody likes keeping the 5 cent and 10 cent coins, so why not make a difference. With only 20 cents you can provide a child with a meal. So why not Fill a Cup!

We have already managed to have the WFP install a food programme in three of our schools. With the money raised from Fill the Cup we will hopefully be able to create the gardens in all four schools and provide them with a sustainable and independent method of providing their own meals.