Kasaka, UG – Kasaka Secondary School agriculture club improves diet with vegetables – Jul 2025

Kasaka secondary school has started harvesting vegetables to improve student diets. Before, the school wasn’t feeding its students vegetables, though they had enough land to grow them. So Wamukisa with help from Better Lives started a vegetable growing project. The school established an agriculture club that operates and maintains the garden started with 40 beds. Now it has over 60 beds producing carrots, kale, onions, and bitterberries.

Students in the club have learnt practical skills in operating and maintaining a vegetable garden. Some of these learners have started their own vegetable gardens in their respective homes. Parents have taken notice too, and some of them who have stalls in the Kanoni marketplace nearby have offered to sell club produce in their stores. Some teachers buy the club’s vegetables to add to their diets. Earning and saving from sales are important to make the club self-sustaining, able to purchase seeds and replace broken tools.

The club is now harvesting vegetables for school lunch twice a week. Learners now have nutritious food with vegetables. With more water available, the garden could produce more vegetables in rain or dry seasons. It takes a lot of time watering and mulching the 60 beds and fetching heavy water makes work less enjoyable in this dry season

The club members dream of having an efficient water system (stand pipe) in the vegetable garden which will make the results expected, the work easier, and the project more enjoyable.