Nutrition Gardening

Nutrition Gardening

Nhaka Foundation is dedicated to ending childhood malnutrition and hunger through supporting the establishment of nutrition gardens, providing agricultural education and community empowerment in the most vulnerable rural communities that we serve in Africa.

 

Since 2012, Nhaka Foundation has worked with schools to develop gardens that provide fresh vegetables for the feeding program but also for the school to generate some income to sustain the feeding. The nutrition garden produces up to 80% of the produce needed to feed the children nutritious and balanced meals. This helps in reducing hunger, reducing malnutrition, improving the health and improving the school attendance of children who walk long distances from home to school.

 

Together with our Nhaka Foundation sponsors and funders we drill and equip boreholes (wells) that provide a source of clean water for the children to drink, for the feeding program as well as for the school nutrition garden. Some schools have used income from the gardens to even start other projects such as chicken and mushroom farming. All of these projects sustain the feeding program long after Nhaka Foundation has left that particular area.