Do you have a school garden, growing fruit, vegetables and other crops? Would you and your pupils enjoy sharing the successes and challenges of your school garden with a rural school in Uganda? Then this project could be for you! Further details are given in the leaflet.
Background
DDE set up the Food for Thought School Linking Programme with Kulika (Uganda) (www.kulika.org) in 2001. Now there are 60 rural government primary schools in Tororo and Mubende Districts of Uganda in the programme, all with food-growing gardens, learning to use sustainable organic methods – and struggling to cope with climate change. All would love to have a link with a British primary school, to share experiences and learn about each other’s lives
Details about the project
Each UK primary school will have a named link primary school in Uganda. The project’s coordinator
will help you establish and maintain contact with your link school and suggest ways to make it an exciting educational link. The project’s Garden Teacher will visit your school to work with pupils and teachers on the growing aspects of the project. In Uganda, our co-ordinator will support your school link and train pupils and teachers about sustainable food growing.
We hope this link with continue for many months and years.
There is a £50 annual fee for UK schools, to ensure your school is fully committed to the project – and
to avoid disappointing the Uganda school.
Project activities
In the CPD sessions, UK and Ugandan teachers will learn more about:
- growing food in schools
- the impact of climate change on food crops and steps to take to mitigate and to adapt to these
- a window on the world for all pupils, learning about life for pupils in Uganda and UK
- methods to maintain contact between teachers in the link schools using WhatsApp, text message or email
- the principles and ethos of the partnership link, using British Council School Partnership and Global Citizenship resources
Shared activities by partner schools:
1. Contact schools at least once a month, by WhatsApp, texting, email or some other way.
2. Exchange information about the school gardens (and other aspects of school life).
3. Welcome a visitor from Uganda (or UK) to your school.
4. Plan a celebration event at the end of the project, including eating the crops!
To join the project or to find out more, contact Sue Errington at dde@globalcentredevon.org.uk