As part of recuperation, 2 people discharged from hospital will receive your starter pack to plant in their home garden, with advice from the GardenAfrica trainers at the hospital garden.
Your £10 is used to purchase a watering can, pick, spade and fork for a gardener.
Bees are essential for pollination and greatly increase the productivity of a garden. The cost of building a simple hive is £10 - each producing 3 harvests per year, with a possible 30 jars per harvest.
In this moveable enclosure, the size of a vegetable bed, chickens scratch and fertilise the hard, sun baked earth in preparation for planting, while providing nutrients for a balanced diet. This gift includes 1 * Chicken Tractor and 2 * Hens.
Dietary support for an HIV+ patient receiving anti-retrovirals. These patients need to eat before taking their treatment to aid absorption. 1 meal a day from the garden for a whole year to support anti-retroviral treatment. Patients will learn to grow food for themselves, while harvesting food to eat with others in the garden to rebuilt their strength and natural immunity.
A home garden of 100 sq m can feed a family of 5 (2 adults + 3 children) for 12 months of every year. Your gift will include vegetable seedlings, 40 herbs, 3 trees (fruit/soil conditioning barrier) and seeds (50/50 veg-herb).
For those in rural areas with no access to piped water, harvesting and re-using rain water is the only way of irrigating gardens which supply children with their only meal of the day - to aid concentration and learning. 1 * 5000 lt tank with tap, and guttering for 1 school building.
'This gift will train & support 2 nursery wo/men to develop a productive nursery to supply plants and advice for up to 250 other people in their own community.