Malawi: school gardens and climate change
Fact: Worsening droughts and floods in Nsanje are causing crops to fail, destroying classrooms and leaving children hungry and unable to concentrate in class.
Aim: To set up gardens in four primary schools in Nsanje, providing a nutritious daily meal for pupils. We will also be training communities and schools on how best to adapt to climate change.
Thanks to you: The school gardens are underway, with 400 fruit trees planted by children and their parents.
3,000 tree seedlings have also been planted to create a buffer against future flooding and flood barriers have been set up at the schools to reduce damage to the buildings.
Prolonged drought and floods have hit the area, meaning that your generous support for this project has come just in time.
The project has also helped attract better teachers to the local school. With three times as many teachers as before, and more female teachers, the school has seen a 72% rise in the number of girls attending.
photo : ©ActionAid.
Climate change in Malawi
- Floods and droughts are getting steadily worse in Nsanje, southern Malawi
- Harvests are suffering badly and families are not getting enough to eat
- Hunger makes it difficult for children to concentrate in school
- Flooding has damaged school buildings and contaminated water sources, making pupils vulnerable to malaria and diarrhoea.
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