Block B – To assist vulnerable and orphaned learners, Khula Mshika Combined School has successfully maintained a garden since 1993. Currently, they plant beetroot, onions, spinach and lettuce. In 1993, after Eco-link and Food & Trees jointly organized a workshop to advice schools to develop gardens, the school made the right decision in starting a gardening project to help their vulnerable and orphaned learners.

The garden is in the learners’ hands, as they remove the weeds and irrigate. H.O.D of the foundation phase and head of health promoting schools, Ellen Mafumo, supervises the learners and the garden. In addition, many of the school’s educators contribute to the garden by donating money for seeds. “We thank the two companies who advised us to make the vegetable garden. The garden is very helpful, as we give the produce to the orphans,” said Mafumo.