By Tyrone Bennett | CEO of Action Change
To the wonderful community backing our gardens,
Something incredible is happening. Over the past few years, we have carefully built five vegetable gardens in primary schools across Costa Rica, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Sri Lanka. The transformation at these schools has been so profound that the word is spreading, and we are now being overwhelmed with requests from other communities desperate to do the same.
The need is immediate and widespread:
Siyakhula Preschool, South Africa: Located in an urban township, this school provides education for 52 children who often face days with no food at all, or just plain pap or rice. They are a concrete school with no soil for planting, so our mission is to purchase safe, nearby land to install a garden that can feed these children 365 days a year.
Zimbabwe: We have 23 schools currently on our waitlist, all calling for a garden to help stabilize their school feeding programs.
Guatemala: After hearing about the success of our Costa Rican garden, two schools have reached out to us, eager to transform their own school meals in 2026.
We have the volunteers ready to break ground, and we have the expertise to make these gardens flourish. The only piece of the puzzle missing is the funding to get these projects off the ground.
We currently have 73 dedicated supporters following this project. While I am so grateful for every one of you, to meet this surge in demand, we need to grow our network. This is where you come in.
The Little by Little campaign is our best chance to make this happen. Between March 17th and the 20th, GlobalGiving will match every donation up to 50 dollars at 50 percent.
Your 50 dollar donation becomes 75 dollars.
That amount helps us secure the land, seeds, tools, and irrigation needed to get these gardens growing.
Please share this plan and our need with your personal networks. If each of you can bring just one new person into our circle, we can exponentially increase our reach and turn these dreams into reality for hundreds of children. What do you think? Are you ready to help us grow?
Thank you for being the soil in which this project thrives. We are so excited to see what we can build together this year.
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