This week we have embarked on a discussion about our main objective of reducing on the rate at which children drop out of school in Uganda.Uganda is said to have the highest school dropout rate in East Africa- http://www.mnnonline.org/news/uganda-has-highest-school-drop-out-rate-in-east-africa Starting …
This turned out to be one of my best days in our project work. We set out to film our agricultural play and creative dance as planned two weeks ago. In the morning we started with our usual activity of …
Our Music, dance and drama classes are ongoing and very interesting. They have made us friendlier to each other and a lot of creativity is being exhibited by the youngsters trying to reflect on what they do in the garden …
Thank God it rained the whole night and we assumed that our plants were receiving the rain in the same amounts. To our surprise it looked like just a drizzle had reached our gardens but this was at least something. …
The rate of activities in our garden has gone low because of the hot weather we are experiencing. We cannot put any new seedlings in the ground since our greatest challenge is now water. The children are continuing to develop …
Today we continued with our Nutrition programme where we follow up the food from the garden to the table. We had chance to learn from two of our parents and one teacher all members of the Gayaza High School fraternity …
Disease/pest Attack Record Pest Name: Bean fly or bean stem maggot Vector: Housefly Symptoms · Yellow blotches on the leaves · Swelling and splitting of the stem · Development of adventitious roots due to reduced number of lateral roots · …
It is 2nd January 2014, and we are all fresh from the just concluded year 2013. We thank God who enabled us to open up this educational garden and the children have returned renewed to work even harder in the …
The children had learnt how to create compost and brought from home bags full of decomposable materials. This showed me that the youth can put a lot of energy into any learning that makes sense to them. I wish the …
Yesterday we received a drizzle at our school- Gayaza High School 200m from our Community Education Garden and we celebrated hoping that our plants were receiving some water. Interestingly enough it looks like our garden is in a rain shadow …