The gardens at The Children’s Academy continue to do really well. Here we see students harvesting the produce they, with help from school staff and parent volunteers, have grown. What’s even cooler is that all the produce in the school gardens is grown using sustainable gardening techniques like permaculture!
While learning sustainable gardening is important for the environment, in Haiti it’s vital in other ways, too. Many of our students are food insecure. Produce from the school gardens is used either to feed students directly at school, or it is sent home with them, especially those that we know to live in food-insecure homes. This helps students get nutrition for healthy development, energy to succeed at school, and can help their families out in the process.
In an effort to teach students self sufficiency, one more thing we do with the produce harvested from the school gardens is teach student how to cook it and incorporate it into meals. Students learn this in every year of schooling at The Children’s Academy, from 1st though 10th grades, assuring that they know how to feed themselves as they grow up.
If you are moved to support this vital work, we invite you to make a donation that we will earmark toward this effort. Haiti Partners is honored and grateful to all our general supporters already making this work possible. THANK YOU!
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Delray Beach, FL 33482
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Phone: (772) 539-8521
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