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Demonstration/Community Gardens
Our aim is to provide simple means for people living under a dollar a day to grow their own food. CTC’s community gardens demonstrate more effective methods of farming especially in hot dusty towns with unreliable sources of water and limited space. Sack gardens, improved composting methods and drip irrigation systems provide realistic ways for people to grow basic vegetables right outside their homes. This improved technology makes it possible to enhance the basic health and nutrition of the community. Currently CTC is working alongside two main groups, 1) Shosho Shamba and 2) Good Shepherd Orphanage
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Shosho Shamba
Shosho Shamba is Swahili for “grandmother’s garden”. Many grandmothers in this community are caring for extended families, having lost their own children to AIDS. The women manage the garden and with the help of our environmental coordinator, demonstrate to the wider community, productive, water efficient organic farming methods. All the crops that are grown will be used by these women.
Good Shepherd Orphanage
Good Shepherd Orphanage is home to over 20 children who are in desperate need. When CTC was introduced to the orphanage in 2008 the children were struggling just to meet basic food needs and overall nutrition. With the new demonstration garden they are on their way to becoming a sustainable entity providing healthy meals and meeting the children’s nutritional needs.
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