CUCU (SHO-SHO) SHAMBA
Cucu 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 productive, water efficient organic farming methods. All the crops that are grown are used by these women to support their families.
ENVIRONMENTAL CLUBS
CTC’s Environmental Club is currently operating at Ngeya Primary School, the most impoverished government school in the region. The children that attend are from the poorest families in the area and for many of these children, the meal they receive at school is the only food they eat all day. The goal of the Environmental Club, which has 80 members in a school of 1,800 students, is to eventually supplement the students diet with healthy meal alternatives at school and to teach their families more sustainable farming methods at home.
