Calder High Tailored Project 2009
Uganda2009Back ground
Following on from the success of the 2008 project The Great Generation undertook a second project with Calder High School.
The project
The group of 13 student volunteers, 3 adult supervisors and 1 project leader from The Great Generation worked with The Great Generations Expert Partner, Reach Out Mbuya to develop a model garden. This model garden is now used for Reach Out?s clients to learn how to grow food, eat a nutritious, balanced diet, use a surplus crops to take to market as a source of income, work as part of a collective and enjoy a healthy and active lifestyle.
Whilst in Kampala the group also ran a series of workshops in the local community to raise awareness of Reach Out ? both to current and potential clients and the wider community ? its services and HIV Aids prevention messages, to actively promote activities to church congregation, to use sports as an engagement tool.
