School Gardening network

Apart from offering a great opportunity for improving the quality of education and for learning basic life skills. Twende Kazi has over the time learnt that school gardens can significantly help learners to know where their food comes from and learn more about science. School gardens are helping primary students to know where their food comes from and at the same time they are learning about science.

Twende Kazi also recognizes that School gardens can contribute to increasing the relevance and quality of education, improving the children’s and their parents’ knowledge of food production techniques and nutrition, and stimulate the development of home gardens. These achievements would together lead to an improvement in the nutritional status of the children and their families and thereby contribute to improving food security and human capital. The potential role of school gardens in improving children’s practical agricultural and nutritional knowledge and “life skills” is particularly valuable in the context of child-headed households as a consequence of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

So, through our School gardens project, schools are encouraged and supported to grow food crops like; cabbages, onions, maize, bananas, beans, sweet potatoes, cassava, and cabbages. Plans are also under way also to encourage the growing of cash crops like coffee, vanilla, cotton, passion fruits, Sugarcanes among others.