In collaboration with the Agroforestry NGO ‘APAF’, The Ivory Foundation is supporting a project to develop the Yagma school grounds (1ha), in particular through agroforestry and the use of fertilizing trees.

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Part of this land will be dedicated to the setting up of an educational garden, intended to produce vegetables for children’s meals. A school canteen will also be built.

This school, which welcomes 250 children, is located in the district of Yagma Koudogo, on the outskirts of Ouagadougou. Yagma Koudogo is a new district built on old agricultural land to relocate the victims of the floods of 2009 that have ravaged several districts of the capital.

 

This project aims to:

– improve the nutrition of children, especially the poorest, by allowing them to receive a meal at lunchtime,

– produce locally fresh vegetables, eggs and poultry for the needs of the canteen,

– provide additional income with the sale of vegetables to finance other needs (rice, pasta, sardines, oil …), the objective being to achieve a self-sufficient system,

– achieve energetic self-sufficiency of the canteen with the production of firewood,

– create a model garden using the techniques of agroforestry, which can serve as an example for families living in the neighborhood,

-encourage vocations in these innovative techniques among young people.

 

The Ivory Foundation’s support will cover the costs of setting up the pedagogical garden (crops, planting trees, etc.), training the project team and building an equipped school canteen.

 

 

 

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