YEAR OF THE GARDEN!

 

 

 

1,000 GARDENS IN AFRICA is an initiative of Slow Foods International, and they have agreed to partner with us to build a garden at our sister school!

 

Slow Foods is an international organization committed to teaching people the value of eating locally and preserving the integrity of the land and culture where food is grown.  Slow Foods is dedicated to:

·         Protecting the environment

·         Defending food biodiversity through sustainable agriculture

·         Supporting small-scale food producers and valuing their traditional knowledge.

 

Our goal is to help Buppala School sustain their own lunch program through organic gardening.  To that end, we are working with 1,000 Gardens in Africa to build a garden on the school property.  Last week, our friend, guide and mentor, Joanne Trangle, travelled to Buppala School with our engineer, Moses Bagonza, to plan the implementation of the garden this summer.  They delivered some gardening tools to demonstrate our good intentions and to help the villagers begin preparing the land for cultivation.  The school has dedicated four acres for this garden.

 

Anyone who is interested in assisting with this effort is invited to join us in building the garden in Uganda.  It will be two weeks of working in the village alongside the community to initiate a life-changing sustainable garden project.  If you are interested, contact Jodi Sabra, or visit

Kuchanga Travel  for details.  We are leaving as soon as school is over in June.

We will be working hard this spring raising money to continue lunches for almost 1000 children now, and also will be fundraising for the garden. If you or anyone you know has any great ideas for fundraising, please let us know.  We would love for as many people to be involved as possible!

 Meanwhile, learn more about the  1000 Gardens project here:  1,000 Gardens in Africa

Check it out! It is a really cool movement!  We will be utilizing these resources to help the students at Radnor and Buppala Schools gain a better understanding of where their food comes from and how it is grown. It will also be interesting for them to see how people live and grow food in Uganda.

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WE GOT MAIL!

Happy New Year! We are off to a great start this year with The Pen Pal Project and are thrilled about the new letters we just got all the way from Uganda! The RMS students got to learn a little more about their pen pals, such as what they do before they go to school, what sports and activities they like to do, what their favorite subjects are, and who their favorite teachers are. It has been interesting and exciting for the Radnor students to see what they have in common with their pen pals and where their lives differ. 

    We are embarking on a new project in pen pal club in which we are responding to prompts in the book, List Yourself. This book has prompts in the form of lists, such as “list everything you do in the morning between waking up and walking out your door”, “list all the things you would do if you were president”, and “list the things that are usually in your garbage”. We will then send these same prompts to our friends at Bupala and see how their lists compare to ours.

Please stay updated on what we are up to by following this blog (scroll down on the right hand side of the blog) and liking our page on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/UgandaPenPalClub). We have a lot of exciting projects coming up! Thank you for your continuous interest and support!