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Real Impact Demonstration Garden
Thika, Kenya
Real Impact (RI) is a Kenyan NGO that helps communities understand the principles of good nutrition, and trains institutions and domestic gardeners on how to design and manage Nutrition Gardens. They grow enough of the right vegetables to meet the requirements of a balanced diet in a sustainable way, without having to resort to food aid and hand-outs of vitamin A and iron tablets. They are building a network of over 40 Nutrition Gardens in schools, hospitals, women’s groups, youth groups, self-help groups, orphanages and prisons in the Thika region.
After CYL Kenya visited the demonstration garden, RI provided the team with training on vermi-composting and hundreds of worms and castings for the seminar CYL conducted in February of 2012.
CYL-K Flagship garden at Kabiro Primary School |
Kabiro Primary School Garden
Kawangware, Nairobi
Housed at the Kabiro Primary School in Kawangware, our flagship Kenyan garden includes a total of seven growing pillars (as well as a composting unit) and provides an educational tool for the students to learn about composting and agriculture. The garden is tended by the Kawangware Urumwe Youth Group (KUYG) and the Parents of Children with Special Needs Association, who collect produce from the garden for their personal use and to sell for financial benefit. After we successfully piloted our gardening program by developing five garden pillars, the Kenyan Ministry of Agriculture generously provided funding for two more, resulting in a total of seven garden pillars at Kabiro.
Community Partners
Kabiro Primary School hosted our first training seminar, which many of our community partners attended; they are also providing the land for our flagship Nairobi gardens
Kawangware Urumwe Youth Group has been at the Vanguard of the CYL vision, implementing our first pillars in Nairobi, which were partially funded by the Ministry of Agriculture.
Parents of Children with Special Needs Association , along with the Urumwe Youth Group, tends to our Kawangware garden and collects produce from the pillars.
Kisumu
We work with the Lakers Art and Conservation Group in Kisumu, Kenya, where a small-scale garden project is helping to raise awareness of how sustainable agriculture can help mitigate local environmental issues. The garden is helping the Lakers support themselves as well as broadening the demographic they can serve. One member of the group has also started his own personal garden.
Community Partners
Lakers Conservation and Art Group representatives traveled close to 500 miles round trip to attend our first training seminar and have now initiated a small-scale garden in Kisumu.
Additional Kenyan Partners
Multi-Vision Group and Youth Safety Awareness Initiative (Eldoret)
Representatives of these organizations attended our first training seminar:
Garden of Eden, Kenya (Kibera)
This organization will be our primary partner in Kibera when we have the funding to start a garden there!
Members of Kenya Lakers C & A Group with their gardening supplies