Moshi, TZ – Maendeleo primary school garden – 20 Sep 2013

Once the well was completed, a Better Lives sponsor donated a foot operated water pump so that the teachers and students were able to easily pump water for watering the garden.

Students and teachers with their new money maker water pump

The students enjoyed making the garden and decided to plant:

• 2beds Chinese cabbage seedlings
• 2 beds of loshuu (Ethiopian mustard) seedlings
• 2 beds of eggplants seedlings
• 2 beds of cow peas
• 2 beds of okra
• 2 beds empty for relay planting.

The children and teachers will gain the skills to grow vegetables in their organic vegetable garden.  Mama Anna, a local parent, will be assisting the teachers and students to maintain the garden.  The soil was sandy so it needed a lot of compost, rice hull charcoal, and water at the time of planting.