KENYA: Hunger and poverty is multidimensional: it includes lack of education, famine and food insecurity, lack of access to health care and clean water, and living in miserable conditions. SEANET is working with education, to bring school gardens that feed students and act as demonstration plots for the whole community and to stimulate entrepreneurship. And SEANET are using the power of the Internet in their E-Learning approach. To date, via the 11 schools participating, thousands of pupils, parents and local people have been involved. The gardens have shown improved productivity which is helping from the ground up. Students nutrition is improved, as well as the spread of knowledge to the local neighborhoods.
SEANET is incredible because it is focussing on the link between nutrition and learning ability/environment and also on a farming mind-set of young academics. So many young students do not see themselves as farmers, neither do their parents. If we want to secure food in a sustainable way, we need youths to get interested in conserving the land and growing food. SEANET has an innovative approach to that, using both the net and physical gardening.
By: Else Marie Buck on May 29, 2012
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