As part of the project to set up school gardens through the network of Fundamental schools of Application and Pedagogical Support Center (EFACAP), the Departmental Directorates of Education (DDE), Agriculture and Environment of the Grand'Anse, realized last week in the commune of Marfranc, an activity around the theme "a student, a tree, a school-a garden". This same activity was carried out in the same week also in the communes of Jérémie de Dame-Marie and Beaumont.

For the first year of the project, the departments of the South and Grand'Anse were targeted. Nurseries will be set up in EFACAPs and seedlings will be distributed to all other Associated Schools to set up school gardens for experimentation and consumption.

Two agronomist lecturers, Ronald Bien Aimé from the Directorate of Support to Private Education and Partnership (DAEPP) and agricultural technician Dimy Exama, have drawing the attention of nearly 400 students mobilized for tehses activities, the importance of protecting the environment while emphasizing the interest they should place in school gardens.

According to Mr. Ronald Bien-Aimé, this project aims to make the student a real player in the management and protection of his environment. The pupil, he continues, will know the importance of responsible behavior towards the environment and will understand his individual and collective responsibilities.

For his part, Dimy Exama explained the program's rationale by helping students become aware of the impact of human activity on the environment and the need to preserve natural resources and biodiversity species.

In summary, the school garden and environmental education project being developed by the Ministry must lead students to become aware of the need for a more just development that is more attentive to what will be left to future generations.

After a distribution of seedlings, the day was closed with a walk of students in the City Center, with seedlings in hand to sensitize the community on the importance of involving students in the protection of the environment.

See also :

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-25314-haiti-environment-let-s-grow-the-school-garden.html

https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-18531-haiti-education-the-promodev-encourages-schools-to-create-school-gardens.html

HL/ HaitiLibre