We are fighting against hunger. In South Africa, we work with local teams to plant vegetable gardens in kindergartens and schools. In this way, we improve food security and promote sustainable development.
The Greater Welverdiend community in South Africa consists of eleven villages characterized by wild nature – and economic underdevelopment. Half of the population lives below the poverty line, there is high youth unemployment and only around 10 percent of households earn above the minimum wage.
For many children from poor families or orphans in Welverdiend, the meal they receive in elementary school and daycare centers is the only nutritious meal of the day. This is where our project comes in: Ten large, newly planted vegetable gardens form the basis for the schoolchildren’s diet. The schools and kindergartens are supplied with vegetable seedlings, which they plant and propagate in their own gardens and greenhouses or shade houses. In this way, we ensure that all kindergartens and schools are supplied with fresh vegetables. Our long-term goal is for every kindergarten and elementary school in the municipality of Welverdiend to have its own vegetable garden and grow around half of the food it needs itself.
We are supported in the implementation of the project by local project teams set up by our partner Wild Impact (formerly Africa Foundation). So that we not only improve food security in the region, but also promote sustainable development and education.
Project area
Goals
The necessary infrastructure for the safe production of vegetables and vegetable seedlings will be set up at all project locations
Three pilot sites and ten educational institutions use methods for growing their own vegetables
Permanent full-time staff are equipped and trained with the appropriate equipment and materials and use the structures created to propagate the vegetable seedlings.
Trained interns at the educational institutions support the cultivation and propagation of vegetables and the nutrition program.
Impacts
8.500
Children receive a secure diet through the project measures.
10
supported educational institutions have vegetable gardens in which vegetables can be grown all year round using their own seedlings
50%
of the vegetables used for the pupils’ meals in the educational institutions will come from our own production in future.
10
Educational facilities are being equipped with water tanks, and a new 8 kW solar system is being installed at the central seedling propagation and training center to provide sufficient electricity for the production of vegetable seedlings.
Impressions
Contribution to the sustainability goals
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Udo Gattenlöhner
Managing Director, Head of Communication & Marketing
Tel: +49 7732 9995 870
gattenloehner@globalnature.org
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