Moshe, TZ – Kahe Primary Grow Own Breakfast Garden harvest Overflow – Oct 2025
Kahe Primary School children are taking excess vegetables home to supplement their family meals. For several years now, the joint efforts of children, parents and the Tupendane team have made possible the existence of a beautiful productive vegetable and banana garden at Kahe Primary School.
The garden has delivered many benefits to the school’s children, teachers, and parents, including hands-on learning, healthy meals, market access, support for disadvantaged families, and income generation to contribute to the breakfast program and maintenance of some of the school facilities and services.
Hands-on Learning enables Children and teachers to enjoy learning and teaching organic gardening skills and best practices
Healthy meals every school day served to students and teachers are based upon nutritious organic vegetables and bananas grown in the organic school gardens.
Market Access is easy for the school children’s parents because they can purchase fresh, healthy produce from the school garden’s surplus harvests.
Support for disadvantaged families is provided when the local markets are saturated, and surplus vegetables are given free to selected vulnerable families.
Income generation comes from the sales of surplus produce, and is used to fund garden maintenance and even improved school facilities, such as renovating the toilet floors.
As we strive to sustain and expand these benefits, protection and marketing challenges have emerged. The school garden protection is needed to protect against thieves and damage from stray animals, and the surplus harvest needs market access to more consistent customers.
Tupendane is working with Better Lives to solve these challenges by designing and building a protective garden fence, and identifying and connecting with potential customers both inside and outside the Kahe school district.
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