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 in 2009.
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.
In 2010 we will set up a sustainable feeding programme to provide 2,500 children with a daily nutritious meal. Clean water supplies will also be brought to schools.
How far will your donation go in 2010?
- £100 could provide 1,000 primary school pupils with a daily meal of nutritious porridge for one week - sometimes the only guaranteed meal they will have
- £500 could fund one school garden for a year, providing a lasting food source for pupils to ensure they have enough to eat
- £1,000 could establish tree nurseries alongside riverbanks for one school. These will absorb excess water, reducing the likelihood of flooding
- £3,000 could refurbish a block of three classrooms for 200 children, protecting them from future flooding.
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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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