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
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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!
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.
More than 260 meals were purchased at Radnor Middle School's "Compassion in Action BBQ" hosted by the school's Pen Pals Club on Nov. 21, helping raise nearly $3,000 for the students' pen pal friends at the Bupala Primary School in Uganda. The get-together community event underscored the importance of volunteer service, and included students
