Exciting news came through recently about how permaculture is benefiting children who are part of the World Heritage Orphan & Vulnerable Children’s (WHOVC) project. Godfrey Opolot, a social worker from Nyero, attended Steve’s course in Uganda in May and realised the potential in his area to help the local community. He set up a permaculture project at Moru Ikara Primary School, which is one of the schools that some of WHOVC children attend.
This is what Godfrey has reported so far: “I am glad to report we had a one day permaculture envisionment training on 25 July with 35 farmers, 60 primary school children, 13 teachers, 16 NGO field staff. We opened a school permaculture garden where we are planting banana circles and intend to have a food forest for the school. Kids are also planting trees in the school compound. We opened a permaculture club with 60 children and 2 teachers. They are amazingly committed and willing to learn. We plan to make the school a role model of permaculture in Uganda. Since it is adjacent to Nyero Rock Painting tourist site, we hope in the long run to have an organic shop and greenhouse for seed propagation and vegetable growing where the club will be earning some income to enable it to meet its operation costs, as well supplement the school feeding programme. We hope to secure some funds to set up a monument and sign post for the club in memory of early man who lived at the rocks and showing how he survived by using nature as a teacher and wild life to provide food.”