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Ecuador
Working in the
garden twice per week, each grade fulfilled requirements for
their science courses ... The students have worked in school
gardens with the previous PCV, so are quite independent and
knowledgeable. The higher grades did very well in planning
their plots and spacing their seeds. They watered the plot
regularly and had a very successful harvest. Cucumbers, beans,
peppers, radishes, and cabbage grew very well.”
“…the students
see the entire process from the planting of the seed to the
preparation and finally the eating of the food that they have
grown themselves“.
“The main
benefits from the seed program are to teach children how to use
vegetables to improve nutrition and how to develop and maintain
a small garden. Within this learning, other valuable skills that
the youth develop during the learning process are leadership,
responsibility, biology knowledge and how to integrate and
participate in community projects.”
Peace Corps,
Ecuador
Peru
“The gardens
at the school level have helped me to teach responsibility,
nutrition and trash/compost at the schools. The kids are the
ones who are in charge of watering all the plants and they take
great pride in their gardens. This project has taught them
responsibility and ownership of something that depends on their
existence.”
Peace Corps,
Peru |
Uruguay
“This
gardening program is the second year, having begun in 2003 in a
time of particularly great difficulty and need for Uruguayan
families. The project gives families the possibility of
generating a large part of their own food in their own ground at
a minimum cost.”
“The school
gardens, besides contributing to the distribution at the local
level and to families, provide fresh vegetables for the school
dining room, and are useful for learning what can be obtained
from the land by observing the growth of the different
vegetables and following the gardening
advice."
Partners of
the Americas, Uruguay
Nicaragua
“Overall, the
seed donation resulted in the cultivation of 56 home gardens and
an increase in nutrition knowledge and vegetable consumption by
the participating 60 students and 41 families. Thank you for
your contribution to the municipality of Muy Muy´s
development!”
"PCVs trained
families and helped them develop 45 organic diversified
vegetable gardens. 45 families (about 270 individuals)
established their own diversified vegetables garden for both,
self-consumption and marketing. Another 85 individuals were
reported with small vegetable gardens for testing and
self-consumption use."
Peace Corps,
Nicaragua |
