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Fund a Sustainable School Vegetable Garden
Fund a sustainable food source that will help feed hungry children in struggling poverty stricken communities
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Project Summary
Project Challenge
Project Solution
Impact
Reports
Project Summary
This project is working to enable schools around the world to provide self-sustaining meals to students, through the implementation of vegetable gardens. We train the local community members that work at the school in crop management and in health and nutrition so they can become the local experts to ensure their students get a healthy meal that keeps the students’ brain active and the catering costs down as the products are grown at the school.
Project Challenge
Education is very important and a key to breaking the poverty cycle, however, many children in poorer or more rural areas struggle to stay in school and concentrate effectively as they are struggling with hunger and lack of nutritious meals. As well as affecting the children, hunger also affects the community members and staff which is why these community gardens could help to eliminate a range of issues. This is a big problem in many countries as poverty is still a large global issue.
To fund a meal today for someone who is hungry is a great gift but imagine if you could feed them for a lifetime. Across all our community schools we aim to work with each school to install a sustainable veggie garden that not only will provide fresh produce for school dinners but can be sold to make a small income to purchase other resources as well as get students involved with the garden so that they can learn new skills outside the basic curriculum
Project Solution
By implementing veggie gardens in schools and areas hit hard by poverty we can help to alleviate the hunger problem by providing sustainable meals to children as well as providing community members and staff with important education and knowledge around sustainable agriculture. The produce grown can also be sold to make an income and provide the schools with resources as well as cut down costs for the school canteen as everything would be grown in the garden.
Impact
This project will provide nutritious meals to school children, helping them to maintain good concentration and learn effectively as well as benefit the surrounding community through skills training and income-generation opportunities. This also helps these communities, schools and individuals become independent and more environmentally friendly as they learn to implement cost-effective and efficient ways of growing food and feeding the school children.
Reports
Project Report | Mar 9, 2026
Veggie Garden’s Are A Huge Hit
By Tyrone Bennett |Â CEO of Action Change
Children Love The Veggie Garden at School
To the wonderful community backing our gardens,
Something incredible is happening. Over the past few years, we have carefully built five vegetable gardens in primary schools across Costa Rica, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Sri Lanka. The transformation at these schools has been so profound that the word is spreading, and we are now being overwhelmed with requests from other communities desperate to do the same.
The need is immediate and widespread:
Siyakhula Preschool, South Africa:Â Located in an urban township, this school provides education for 52 children who often face days with no food at all, or just plain pap or rice. They are a concrete school with no soil for planting, so our mission is to purchase safe, nearby land to install a garden that can feed these children 365 days a year.
Zimbabwe:Â We have 23 schools currently on our waitlist, all calling for a garden to help stabilize their school feeding programs.
Guatemala:Â After hearing about the success of our Costa Rican garden, two schools have reached out to us, eager to transform their own school meals in 2026.
We have the volunteers ready to break ground, and we have the expertise to make these gardens flourish. The only piece of the puzzle missing is the funding to get these projects off the ground.
We currently have 73 dedicated supporters following this project. While I am so grateful for every one of you, to meet this surge in demand, we need to grow our network. This is where you come in.
The Little by Little campaign is our best chance to make this happen. Between March 17th and the 20th, GlobalGiving will match every donation up to 50 dollars at 50 percent.
Your 50 dollar donation becomes 75 dollars.
That amount helps us secure the land, seeds, tools, and irrigation needed to get these gardens growing.
Please share this plan and our need with your personal networks. If each of you can bring just one new person into our circle, we can exponentially increase our reach and turn these dreams into reality for hundreds of children. What do you think? Are you ready to help us grow?
Thank you for being the soil in which this project thrives. We are so excited to see what we can build together this year.
This project is working to enable schools around the world to provide self-sustaining meals to students, through the implementation of vegetable gardens. We train the local community members that work at the school in crop management and in health and nutrition so they can become the local experts to ensure their students get a healthy meal that keeps the students’ brain active and the catering costs down as the products are grown at the school.
Education is very important and a key to breaking the poverty cycle, however, many children in poorer or more rural areas struggle to stay in school and concentrate effectively as they are struggling with hunger and lack of nutritious meals. As well as affecting the children, hunger also affects the community members and staff which is why these community gardens could help to eliminate a range of issues. This is a big problem in many countries as poverty is still a large global issue.
To fund a meal today for someone who is hungry is a great gift but imagine if you could feed them for a lifetime. Across all our community schools we aim to work with each school to install a sustainable veggie garden that not only will provide fresh produce for school dinners but can be sold to make a small income to purchase other resources as well as get students involved with the garden so that they can learn new skills outside the basic curriculum
By implementing veggie gardens in schools and areas hit hard by poverty we can help to alleviate the hunger problem by providing sustainable meals to children as well as providing community members and staff with important education and knowledge around sustainable agriculture. The produce grown can also be sold to make an income and provide the schools with resources as well as cut down costs for the school canteen as everything would be grown in the garden.
This project will provide nutritious meals to school children, helping them to maintain good concentration and learn effectively as well as benefit the surrounding community through skills training and income-generation opportunities. This also helps these communities, schools and individuals become independent and more environmentally friendly as they learn to implement cost-effective and efficient ways of growing food and feeding the school children.
Project Report | Mar 9, 2026
Veggie Garden’s Are A Huge Hit
By Tyrone Bennett |Â CEO of Action Change
Children Love The Veggie Garden at School
To the wonderful community backing our gardens,
Something incredible is happening. Over the past few years, we have carefully built five vegetable gardens in primary schools across Costa Rica, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Sri Lanka. The transformation at these schools has been so profound that the word is spreading, and we are now being overwhelmed with requests from other communities desperate to do the same.
The need is immediate and widespread:
Siyakhula Preschool, South Africa:Â Located in an urban township, this school provides education for 52 children who often face days with no food at all, or just plain pap or rice. They are a concrete school with no soil for planting, so our mission is to purchase safe, nearby land to install a garden that can feed these children 365 days a year.
Zimbabwe:Â We have 23 schools currently on our waitlist, all calling for a garden to help stabilize their school feeding programs.
Guatemala:Â After hearing about the success of our Costa Rican garden, two schools have reached out to us, eager to transform their own school meals in 2026.
We have the volunteers ready to break ground, and we have the expertise to make these gardens flourish. The only piece of the puzzle missing is the funding to get these projects off the ground.
We currently have 73 dedicated supporters following this project. While I am so grateful for every one of you, to meet this surge in demand, we need to grow our network. This is where you come in.
The Little by Little campaign is our best chance to make this happen. Between March 17th and the 20th, GlobalGiving will match every donation up to 50 dollars at 50 percent.
Your 50 dollar donation becomes 75 dollars.
That amount helps us secure the land, seeds, tools, and irrigation needed to get these gardens growing.
Please share this plan and our need with your personal networks. If each of you can bring just one new person into our circle, we can exponentially increase our reach and turn these dreams into reality for hundreds of children. What do you think? Are you ready to help us grow?
Thank you for being the soil in which this project thrives. We are so excited to see what we can build together this year.
