Posts Tagged ‘agriculture’
Update on schools’ new Drip Irrigation Systems
Earlier this year we shared the news that 3 of our partner schools in Tanzania installed 1-acre Drip Irrigation Systems (DIS) on their school farms. With the first two phases now complete, we wanted to share the good news from our best performing school, Gedamar Primary School. 2,415 kg of onions and 800 kg of…
Read MoreHow one So They Can Teacher Intern is leading the way in agricultural innovation and sustainable initiatives.
Emanuel is a Mamire Teachers’ College graduate, specialising in secondary education chemistry and agriculture. In 2021, So They Can expanded its successful Internship Program to support 4 secondary schools in the Babati district of Tanzania — this is in addition to the 12 primary schools that the organisation currently assists through the Program. Noticeably, secondary…
Read MoreCreating food and economic security for schools through our Shamba Letu project
In Tanzania, approximately 67% of the population work in the agriculture sector. Despite the Manyara region being a food crop producing region, 36% of the population still suffers from malnutrition. The government is trying to combat this problem by providing schools with up to 10 acres of farmland, yet less than a third of this…
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