Planting Fruit Trees
Zahana was planting the first fruit trees way back in 2006 already. This webpage was created in 2006 :
Zahana had brought seedlings of fruit trees: mangos, orange, Loquat (bibasse),
banana and papaya from a nursery in the capital to be planted in the
school garden. These trees are hoped to built the foundation of many
more
Fruit trees.
Children were asked to dig the garden around the school to plant the fruit
trees. We made a nursery of flowers and when the school is built these
flowers will be moved and planted around. It was there nice to see all
kids participating in the work. I kept to telling them that this is for
them that it would be nice to have a school with flowers and surrounded
by fruit trees.
One observation during this activity: Its easier to get young people involved than the older ones. When they see members of Zahana actively participating in the actions (not just communicating with the village via messengers), they become motivated to participate themselves. In the morning when we said: “lets go to dig the garden because you boys havent anything to do right now”, a few minutes later girls and boys already came running with their tools.