CDE also manages the Gardens for Life project (GFL) in partnership with The Eden Project, Cornwall UK and has now completed various aspects of the project, namely the formation and cultivation of food gardens in the schools and relating the school gardens to the curriculum. In this phase the children of 20 schools in Mumbai and Pune created a patch of garden in their school premise and grew food. They participated in all the activities from preparing the beds to harvesting vegetables and fruits in their own schools. The children also shared their experiences with their counterparts in UK and Kenya through the post and the website and visits. They also tried out the science topics that have been developed by the project in the Indian classrooms, participating in developing new topics, relating local and global issues to the curriculum. There are 72 schools and 75000 students involved in GFL from UK, Kenya and India. In fact CDE was involved in this project right from the inception and design of the project and the proposal stage. Now we are developing the Phase II of this project, which will involve the 300 municipal schools in urban Pune and Mumbai as mentor schools and 10 additional schools from Khed Taluka in Rural Maharashtra. The first phase of this project in India was being funded by Syngenta Foundation Switzerland. 

Garden For Life - click here for video
A Presentation by CDE.

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