CITW Botswana Facilitates Shashe Primary School Vegetable Garden

In May 2024, Children in the Wilderness (CITW) Botswana and Shashe Primary School in Maun embarked on a transformative new vegetable garden project.

The team started immediately after the school’s opening on 14 May, by putting up a fence around the school garden to keep unwanted visitors (mainly goats and chickens) out of the plants.

The objectives of this project are to:

  • Give children the skills to create a plot, grow vegetables, and understand their nutritional importance for their bodies.
  • To teach children entrepreneurship skills.
  • To give the Environmental Education members the opportunity to learn how to grow organic vegetables from seeds and seedlings.
  • To encourage the children to share their new-found experience and knowledge of producing vegetable with their parents and friends.

The CITW team, Eco-Club members and Eco-Club co-ordinators prepared 26 plots for numerous different vegetables including spinach, rape (canola), beetroot, carrots and tomatoes. The team also set up seedling trays for the children to plant in the prepared plots when the seedlings are ready.

The children were very excited to be part of the project and they were encouraged to take care of the project until the final stage of harvesting, and beyond.

Our CITW Botswana team would like to direct our special gratitude to the Ministry of Basic Education as well as Wilderness employees (including volunteers from Northern Air Maintenance) for the role they played to make sure that this initiative is an ongoing success.

Report by Gabaineele Modirapula, CITW Botswana Administrator

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