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Raising little learners at the Local Mpisi Primary School
OCTOBER 2023 – 100€ TO SUPPORT 19 KIDS FOR A WHOLE MONTH WITH NUTRITIONAL NKOSI BARS
Reducing human-elephant conflict can only be obtained by involving local communities and empowering and educating local people. By building partnerships with schools, we can join forces and work together to share elephant conservation awareness and sustainability tools and knowledge. HERD has set up such a partnership with the Mpisi school in the neighborhood of Hoedspruit.
Malnutrition is causing irreversible loss of physical and cognitive ability among children all around the world.
Before the Covid-19 pandemic, 1 in 3 children in South-Africa suffered from malnutrition. That number has grown since the pandemic. Many of the children at the Mpisi primary school have their only meal of the day at school, coming from impoverished homes where parents can’t always provide adequately for their families.
- provide the kids with nutrition food bars
- provide the students with school material
- involve students in fun elephant-related activities
- share awareness to the species
- help implement a community garden for the children to enjoy at lunchtime
- grow a community vegetable garden
- help with rain harvesting use and supply for the garden
Nkosi Food bars
Together with educational and sustainable activities, this program ensures the children with nutrition food bars to ensure healthy and well-fueled minds and bodies. The Nkosi supplementary bars are packed with essential nutrition crucial for the development of children under the age of 6 and are provided to Mpisi school on a monthly basis. The pupils have been weighed before the program started to establish a base line to determine the effectiveness of the bar going forward.
Donate 10€
Because every donation, no matter how big or small, counts. Contact us if you want to receive a donation certificate from the HERD Trust in South-Africa.
Donate 25€
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Donate 50€
When donating 50€, you will receive a donation certificate from the HERD Trust in South-Africa.
Donate 100€
When donating 100€, you will receive a donation certificate and a personal thank you letter from the HERD Trust in South-Africa.
Donate 250€
When donating 250€, you will receive a donation certificate and a personal thank you letter from the HERD Trust in South-Africa.
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Growing a vegetable garden
At the same time the elder students learn how how to grow a vegetable garden or do rain harvesting, also how to contribute to recycling. We hope that they can take this knowledge home and practice to develop good green habits so this can have a positive impact on their lives and families.
Providing school material
To create conservation awareness the students are involved in fun elephant-related activities. By providing them with school material used for elephant picture colouring and drawing lessons the children are able to connect with these magnificent animals in a positive and engaging way. The created art can then be shared with their loved ones at home. We visited the school to discover the beautiful work HERD is doing out there.
