By Sunel Craythorne | Fundraising Administrator
We are happy to report back on the community project that we work with at HERD Trust.
On our recent visit to Jameyana Primary School, we delivered new boxes of Nkosi Super bars to very eager students and checked in on the food garden.
You will have seen us mention the Mpisi School before, and our work in helping this community school with a nutrition program that includes donations of Nkosi supplementary bars and a food garden. Mpisi now goes by the name of Jameyana Primary School as it has grown and taken in new learners. Jameyana Primary School is a product of a process of merging Mpisi Junior Primary and Jameyana Higher Primary. It has a learner enrolment of 793 and consists of 24 new classrooms.
HERD’s continued involvement in Jameyana Primary School is helping to empower and inspire the up-and-coming generations throughout the local town of Acornhoek. It gives us immense joy and purpose to be able to give back to our community in different and important ways, to show new generations the value of conversation and the development it enables.
We can’t look after elephants in isolation, we need to involve people so they can see why elephants need saving.
In 2021, we implemented an on-campus vegetable garden at Jameyana Primary School, providing daily nutritional and economic support for the school. The vegetable garden also teaches the pupils how to grow their food and how to utilize the produce effectively in the kitchen. The garden includes a row of young fruit trees which will soon be providing delicious, healthy fruits for pupils to enjoy throughout the day.
Additionally, HERD has been working to provide the school with monthly deliveries of Nkosi Bars. These supplementary bars are high in energy and nutritional value and are aimed at providing short and long-term benefits for young students.
The progress of the Community Nutrition Project is recorded every three months. The team visits the school to weigh and measure the pupils, taking note of health and weight gain. The initiative is still in the early days, so the long-term effects are yet to be determined, however, teachers have reported higher levels of work ethic and concentration in class because of the Nkosi Super Bars.
Thank you for all your support for our community school initiative and for helping us to build strong little learners who will become our next generation of conservation custodians.
Warm regards,
Adine and the HERD Team
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