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Home » 10.000 Orti in Africa » Mecholo school garden

Mecholo school garden

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Ethiopia

Southern Nations

Mecholo Primary School created their school garden in 2011 with support from the Thousand Gardens project, involving around 64 students, both boys and girls. The students grow various local fruits and vegetables including moringa, omatoes, potatoes, papaya, mango, lablab and pigeon peas as well as some local cereal varieties. All the fresh produce harvested from garden is sold to the local community, including the students’ families, and the money raised goes directly to the school to help provide educational materials for students.
The school’s water tanks are vital to the sustainability of the project, as the semi-arid climate of the region remains a crucial issues in the everyday life of local people. The tanks were built by UNICEIF some years ago and hold 1,500 cubic meters of water.
The garden is realized in collaboration with Konso Cultural Centre (www.konsoculturalcentre.org), which coordinates the gardens in the area and organizes regular training workshops.

Garden location
Mecholo Village, Konso Special Woreda, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People’s Region

Coordinator
Nigatu Kumeda

Slow Food in Ethiopia

Slow Food has been active in Ethiopia since 2006, launching numerous projects in support of the most vulnerable local communities: nomadic herders, traditional forest beekeepers, wild coffee harvesters, indigenous groups and others. Through the Presidia and working with the communities, training activities have been run to strengthen the organization of small-scale producers and to promote and improve the quality of various foods like honey, camel milk, coffee, traditional grains and spices. Slow Food coordinators promote agroecological techniques—applying them in school and community food gardens—in the most diverse ecosystems, from forests and highlands to nature reserves and semi-arid zones. They are also working to save biodiversity and traditional knowledge. A number of educational projects have objectives that include the involvement of young people and women and awareness-raising around themes of strategic importance at a national and international level: the privatization of resources, the use of toxic chemicals in agriculture, the right to land. Educational materials have been produced in Amharic and Oromo, the main local languages. Every year, Ethiopian delegates participate in Slow Food’s international events (Salone del Gusto and Terra Madre, Indigenous Terra Madre, Cheese, Terra Madre Giovani and more) as well as other events thanks to collaborations with different organizations.

Garden Informations

Type:School Garden
Coordinator:Asmelash Dagne Datiko
Sibling with:Slow Food Russian River Convivium, USA

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