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Fruit Trees for school children - Promoting food Security and Environment
A project from ICOD Action Network in Lyantonde, Uganda
We committed to ensuring that every child has access to healthy and fresh fruits in Lyantonde District, Uganda.
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About this project
A. Michael from ICOD Action Network is responsible for this project
When ICOD Action Network turned five years old in February 2013, we decided we wanted to do something big for our community; PLANT 5000 FOOD TREES [ 1000 trees for each year we have been in existence since 2008] so as to contribute to our community's food security and environmental conservation efforts. We reached to multiple donors to support this project and we got $0.00. Instead of giving up after failing to get donor funding, we found another way, grow thousands of food trees ourselves and train thousands of school children and youth on how to plant them in their schools and communities. All trees were sorted, planted, watered and distributed by our staff with a goal of increasing children’s access to home-grown and health fruits for every school going child in our community.
ICOD Action Network believes that working with communities to grow and share healthy food helps cultivate healthy communities able to sustain themselves in future. Since 2008, we have been using community organizing and agriculture as a catalyst for social change by bringing people together across social, economic, and cultural barriers.
Our commitment to promoting food and fruits
ICOD ACTION NETWORK staff have been able to produce 6325 Jack fruit trees in 2013 all of which were distributed free of charge to school children. We are committed to the idea that food and fruits should be available to everyone, regardless of social and economic status. We worked hard in 2013 to ensure that food trees are freely distributed to school children in schools.
With our team of children ambassadors who have shown distinguished leadership in different participating schools, we have been able to train school children to lead other children in planting food trees in their schools and communities.
ICOD Action Network believes that children "own the future" and has set up mechanisms to mobilize and encourage children to directly take charge of planting food trees. School children have been trained in planting food trees of mangoes, papaya and Jack fruit in their respective communities.
Why Our Work Matters
Accessing healthy, homegrown fruits in poor rural communities affected by poverty and effects environmental degradation can be difficult. Years of environmental degradation followed by the unwillingness of government to replant trees in these areas, have made the availability of fruits limited. High poverty levels in rural households have contributed to school children going without food at school and they cant even have access to fruits that would be readily available in their homes and communities. Lack of access to food by school children has led to school drop pout, poor performance and greatly contributed to malnutrition which the underlying cause of death in nearly 60 per cent of infants in Uganda. We are committed to ensuring that every child has access to healthy and fresh fruits in Lyantonde District, Uganda. Support us to plant 50000 fruit trees
ICOD Action Network believes that working with communities to grow and share healthy food helps cultivate healthy communities able to sustain themselves in future. Since 2008, we have been using community organizing and agriculture as a catalyst for social change by bringing people together across social, economic, and cultural barriers.
Our commitment to promoting food and fruits
ICOD ACTION NETWORK staff have been able to produce 6325 Jack fruit trees in 2013 all of which were distributed free of charge to school children. We are committed to the idea that food and fruits should be available to everyone, regardless of social and economic status. We worked hard in 2013 to ensure that food trees are freely distributed to school children in schools.
With our team of children ambassadors who have shown distinguished leadership in different participating schools, we have been able to train school children to lead other children in planting food trees in their schools and communities.
ICOD Action Network believes that children "own the future" and has set up mechanisms to mobilize and encourage children to directly take charge of planting food trees. School children have been trained in planting food trees of mangoes, papaya and Jack fruit in their respective communities.
Why Our Work Matters
Accessing healthy, homegrown fruits in poor rural communities affected by poverty and effects environmental degradation can be difficult. Years of environmental degradation followed by the unwillingness of government to replant trees in these areas, have made the availability of fruits limited. High poverty levels in rural households have contributed to school children going without food at school and they cant even have access to fruits that would be readily available in their homes and communities. Lack of access to food by school children has led to school drop pout, poor performance and greatly contributed to malnutrition which the underlying cause of death in nearly 60 per cent of infants in Uganda. We are committed to ensuring that every child has access to healthy and fresh fruits in Lyantonde District, Uganda. Support us to plant 50000 fruit trees
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