The Rotary Club of Guiguinto Bloomingdales
The Rotary Club of Guiguinto Bloomingdales transformed the Bahay Pangarap Women's Center backyard into an organic vegetable garden by providing garden soil, vermicast, rice hulls and other gardening tools. The Club also organized a seminar and workshop, with a speaker from the Municipal Agriculture Office-Guiguinto to teach the girls on how to grow and maintain the sustainable vegetable garden organically. This activity included a hands-on activity for the girls in making their own fermented fertilizer, preparing the soil, and actual transplanting of seedlings. By teaching these skills, the Rotary Club of Guiguinto Bloomingdales responds to Rotary International President Shekhar Mehta’s call to action to empower girls.
The 14 girls in Bahay Pangarap, who are victims of battery, sexual abuse or exploitation, learned to boost their self-esteem, engagement with others as well as their physical & sensory development through the project.
