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Featured Project: Tafea, Vanuatu |  | | |
27 November 2008
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In Tafea Province on Tanna Island >
Children are learning about food security and
growing food crops that can withstand cyclones and crops that regenerate
quickly after a cyclone.
Traditional Food Education, a successful
three-year-old project has been redesigned as a KOHA project for Tafea.
Children at 22 upper
primary schools grow nutritious gardens in their schools and learn practical
agriculture by: sowing seeds, maintaining gardens, harvesting, and then selling
their garden produce at a local market.
This has also
introduced valuable food and nutrition education using locally grown root
vegetables and legumes
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In Penama Province on
Pentecost Island
The Functional Literacy Project on Pentecost
is a four-year project to address the island’s high illiteracy rate, helping
people who have never had the opportunity to learn basic reading, writing and
numeracy.
Two people from each of the 60 villages are
being trained to teach reading, writing and numeracy to villagers. An estimated
68% of villagers are unable to read and the project aims to educate 1,200
people during the life of the project, enabling men and women to read and write
in the local language.
World Vision supports the project with
printed materials, teaching and learning materials for the teachers and
students.
NZ Government is match
funding this project contributing $4 for every $1 donated.
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