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otarian, Amy McBride spoke to the Longmont Rotary Club, updating them on the Learning Gardens project, currently under construction in Khwai Village, Botswana. The project is on track for planting as spring approaches.
otarian, Amy McBride spoke to the Longmont Rotary Club, updating them on the Learning Gardens project, currently under construction in Khwai Village, Botswana. The project is on track for planting as spring approaches. Khwai Village is a settlement with a population of 400 people located on the banks of the Khwai River in Northeast Botswana near the border with Nambia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The village has a pre-school/elementary school and a secondary school. This hunter/gather village does not grow crops or vegetables. Teaching gardening to the children, and building the infrastructure (water source, proper soil, seeds, tools) will soon make this a possibility for the village of Khwai. The elders of this village have a dream to install a working garden in which they might teach the children and their parents how to raise nutritional food.
With a proper water source, tools and support from the Rotary club of Gaborone and local partners like “Natural Selections’, this dream is now becoming a reality. Amy said “the garden’s well is ready to pump water to the plot. Volunteers are also gearing up to install solar panels and purchase gardening equipment like shovels and rakes. The seeds for crops are set to be planted within the next month and a half.”
Photo: Amy McBride, Rotarian and member of the Rotary Club of Gaborone pictured with Andy Lee, Longmont Rotary Grants Chair holding the plaque that will be placed at the garden site. This project is a joint effort between the Rotary Club of Longmont, Twin Peaks Rotary and Boulder Rotary Club.
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