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Agricultural project: Lehrgarten (Hospital Agriculture Education Center (HAEC) Mutolere)

In 2013 our project of an agricultural training and teaching garden (HAEC) on the grounds of the St. Francis Hospital started. Since then, during the school holidays, our sponsored children and increasingly also pupils from the surrounding schools have been introduced to the planting of beds, cultivation, harvesting and processing of fruit and vegetables. Also the keeping of farm animals is taught and very important, the basic rules of hygiene. The two instructors Keneth and Augustin lead the children with great sympathy and joy in the cooperation. The relatives of the patients from the hospital come by and look with interest at − the outside effect of the teaching garden is great. Headmasters visit their students' holiday courses to get an impression of the area. As a result, several schools have set up their own school gardens. At the end of the holiday courses, all participants receive plant seedlings to plant their own beds at home. Since 2018, MfU has also taken over the teaching courses for adults, which until then had been financed by another organisation.


Guiding theme: "Children are encouraged to do it at home"; − The children are encouraged to apply what they have learned at home
Redesign of the teaching garden in 2013: In the background, the building with training room and office can be seen Behind it is a second building with the kitchen
Installation of a circular bed with an inner trough, into which the water flows in through a gutter (wall opening at the bottom right) and is collected In the background stands the Public Health Building
Schoolchildren preparing a hillside
The instructors: Keneth (front left) and Augustin with sister Katto from the adjacent Public Health Center
What do I need to cook a soup?
Instructor Keneth demonstrates the operation of the hand wash (tip toe): with the foot, a branch is pressed down, which makes the pot to tilt and thus the water to flow
Very important: In the summer courses, students receive a hot meal a day
Demonstration: How do I prepare a dough? At the back left is the kitchen building, in front of it different vegetables are cut and potatoes are peeled
The right cut technique of watermelon and pineapple
Practical instructions for rabbit keeping: The rabbit hutch is cleaned
Outreach: Students from Secondary School St Pauls have created their own garden on the school grounds, which they proudly show us
  • Project start2013
  • End of project2020
  • Investment by donations32.200 €

Children, teenagers and adults should acquire gardening skills in order to grow vegetables and fruit independently at home and to raise small animals such as chickens and rabbits. A further project objective is the external impact of the teaching garden, which consists of arousing interest and publicising new cultivation possibilities in the villages.