Seeds and Support for School Gardens Worldwide

Welcome to Kakuma Refugee Settlement, in Western Kenya. The second largest refugee camp in Kenya, Kakuma  is home to 160,000 people. Residents include refugees that fled war and/or conflict in Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, and Uganda. According to the Work Bank, approximately 68% of the refugees living in Kakuma live below the poverty line of $1.90 a day. Most refugee families living there are dependent on food rations provided by the United Nations World Food Programme.

Lokitang Primary School is one of the main schools located in Kakuma Refugee Settlement, with 1,267 students. Through this program, our local, Kenyan partner Fight Against Hunger is teaching students from Class 8 to run and manage the garden. The produce from the garden goes straight into the school-wide feeding program.

As approximately 68% of residents at Kakuma live off less than $1.90 a day, many families depend on schools to provide at least one nutritious meal for their children per day. For many children, this is the only full meal they get each day. Prior to the establishment of this garden, the school lunch provided at Lokitang School was posho and sometimes beans. Posho is the local name for a bread-like starch made from water and maize flour. While filling, this meal lacks adequate minerals and vitamins needed to support healthy brain development for these children. By supporting a vegetable garden on-site, the school will be able to have an ongoing source of sustainable nutrition to supplement lunch diets for the school children.

It’s thanks to supporters like you that we are able to supplement schoolchildren’s diets with a nutritious meal everyday, while teaching them the benefits and the joys of growing their own food. 

From our office in the US to the gardens in Kakuma, thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your support.