By Onkgarabetsi Moreki | Marketing Operations Assistant
Hi Everyone!
At a school in South Africa, we were able to feed the students and prepare veggie boxes for them to take home for the break, and the smiles on the faces of both children and their parents were outstanding.
In Zimbabwe, where there are over 9,000 primary school students in need of food, we have visited three of the 34 schools we currently support. While the feeding programme is fantastic, it has come to light that schools are cooking with contaminated water and frequently serving e-Pap as a meal due to funding restrictions. E-pap is a fantastic pre-cooked porridge made from a combination of maize, soy, vitamins, and minerals that guarantees they receive the proper amounts of these nutrients, but it is combined with this unclean water.
We want to consider bringing aquaponics and/or veggie gardens to every school in the future so that these kids get a variety of real fresh produce in their diet after seeing the results of the veggie garden in South Africa.
Together, we will keep working to build more vegetable gardens across Africa and Asia because a healthy child can learn more quickly and to their full potential.
Thank you so much for your support!
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