Transgardens presents the news feeds of educational gardens in France and several African countries in the aim of exchanging experiences, advices, and creating links between children of different countries and different cultural backgrounds.

Overview of the gardens


Garden of Skills, Malanti – Eswatini

The garden of Malanti is part of the "Garden of Skills" innovative project initiated by Designing Hope in 2020 with the support of Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche.
It consists in associating on one site an agroforestry garden, in the middle of which has been inaugurated an activity and a training centre in the fields of agroecology, agroforestry, craftsmanship, and micro-project management. Click here to learn more about this project.
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Rufisque Garden – Senegal

Designing Hope used its experience in creating an educational vegetable garden to help the inclusive school Petits Princes d'Handiscole, located in Rufisque, on the outskirts of Dakar, in the creation of a vegetable garden on its 60m2 roof terrace.
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Roosboom Garden – South Africa

The Roosboom garden is part of a day care centre for underprivileged children supported by Designing Hope since 2007. The children are welcomed after school and receive a daily hot meal. The maintenance of the garden involves the children, and participates in the preparation of the meals.
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Macambeni Garden – Eswatini

In 2017, Designing Hope is developing with the support of The Ivory Foundation an educational garden in Macambeni, an underprivileged neighborhood in the city of Piggs Peak. Its has multiple goals: to train women from this neighborhood in sustainable agriculture techniques, to provide fresh vegetables for the neighborhood's kindergarten, as well as for HIV-positive patients at the hospital.
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Hlohlo School Gardens – Eswatini

Since 2012, Designing Hope has been collaborating with several rural schools around Piggs Peak. This support is multifaceted: awareness campaigns, donations of school uniforms to the most underprivileged children, but also nutritional support and training in agroecology. For this, Designing Hope has financed the establishment of enclosed gardens, the salary of a person in charge for each garden, the supply of seeds, and sometimes even access to water when necessary.
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St Monica pedagogical farm – Lesotho

The educational farm of St Monica is a structure welcoming deaf and hard of hearing students trained in agroecology, to help them to start up independently and become self-sufficient.
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Garden of St Paul School for the Deaf – Lesotho

St Paul's School is located in Leribe, northern Lesotho, and brings together 200 children aged 5 to 14, deaf and dumb, from rural areas and very disadvantaged backgrounds. The educational farm was set up with the support of The Ivory Foundation in 2015, in order to develop professional opportunities for out-of-school youth.
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La Traversine Garden – France

La Traversine is an educational garden developed in 2017 on the roof of the Bercy school in the 12th arrondissement in Paris by Desigining Hope as part of the "Parisculteurs", a call for projects launched by the Paris City Council for green roofs, terraces and land in the capital. In 2020, after starting out on the school terrace, the Traversine takes root in the elementary school playground with La Traversine #2.
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Traversine Villiot garden – France

In 2021, Designing Hope has been entrusted by Paris Habitat (Paris social housing organisation) to organise and run a 300 m2 garden in the heart of the Villiot-Rapée residence for a period of four years.
The aim is to make it a place for living and discovering biodiversity and nature, for the children of the residence, but also occasionally for young visitors from the neighbourhood.
A circular Green Theatre in the centre of the garden is intended to welcome the children of the “Centre Paris Amin” (CPA) of the neighbourhood on Wednesday afternoons, to carry out discovery activities around nature (land art, mime, open-air theatre…). A Mandala garden, growing trays and greenhouses will  soon be completing the garden.
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Le Grand Potager de Fontenille – France

A vegetable garden of 4500m2, laid out on an organic wine-growing estate, in the privileged setting of the Luberon. The Grand Potager welcomes schoolchildren from the surrounding schools to raise their awareness of biodiversity and sustainable agriculture techniques.
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Yagma Garden – Burkina Faso

A vegetable garden of 4000m2, built on a deserted plot of land around the school of Yagma, in the suburbs of Ouagadoudou. This garden was set up by The Ivory Foundation, with the expertise of APAF, to set up a pilot garden in agroforestry. This garden aims to change the environment of these children, by providing them with a pleasant and green working environment, while raising their awareness of this innovative agricultural approach and providing vegetables for the school canteen.
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Dawady’s school farm, Senegal

The Dawady Farm School was born in 2017, at the initiative of The Ivory Foundation and with the local expertise of Am Be Khoun and the Kaicedrat.
 134 women are involved in its management, and benefit from individual plots to feed their families. Since 2020, this committed work has spread to the neighbouring villages.
 Thus, 5 new market garden areas have been associated with the project. 
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Fermes semencières de Mbour, Sénégal

Depuis 2019, The Ivory Foundation et Agrosemens se sont associés à l’APAF Sénégal pour développer une filière de production locale de semences paysannes reproductibles. Ce projet a été lancé à la ferme de Diokhar située à proximité de Mbour. Une seconde exploitation située à proximité, dans le village de Nobandane complète depuis 2021 la capacité de production du projet. Un volet pédagogique sur la reproduction des semences est élaboré avec les différents partenaires du projet, et sera partagé avec les autres jardins d'afrique de l'ouest et d'Afrique australe.
 
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Fermes semencières de Bala, Sénégal

En 2012, l’association Le Kaicedrat a construit à Bala un centre médical dans une des régions les plus arides et les plus pauvres du Sénégal, à 60km de la ville de Tambacounda. Des équipes mobiles médicalisées quadrillent les villages en périphérie du centre, dans un rayon de 20 à 30 km. 
Avec le soutien de The Ivory Fondation, le Kaicedrat a pu développer plusieurs jardins dans les villages visités par cette équipe mobile, impliquant les femmes de ces villages, leur apportant des formations en agroécologie et agroforesterie. Pour parfaire ce dispositif, The Ivory Foundation a choisi de réaliser à Bala en 2021, dans l’enceinte du centre médical, un jardin pilote dédié à la production de semences biologiques qui permettra de fournir des semences pour des populations des villages visités par l’équipe mobile.
 
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Ferme semencière de Gouloumbou, Sénégal

La ferme de Gouloumbou, située à 30min de Tambacounda au Sénégal Oriental, a été associée par The Ivory Foundation à son programme de création d’une filière locale de production de semences paysannes reproductibles, en collaboration avec Agrosemens et l’APAF Sénégal. 
Ainsi, une serre de 200m2 a été mise en place pendant l’été 2021. Celle-ci a pour but de garantir la pureté variétale des semences produites localement, et éviter des pollinisations croisées avec d’autres espèces cultivées à proximité
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Transgardens is an initiative of Designing Hope started in 2013, bringing together educational and experimental gardens from several countries in Africa and France. Designing Hope has always promoted family farming in its projects. One of the early project in South Africa aimed at encouraging “Door Gardens”, (family gardens of the size of a door) that can be grown outside the house, even in a township with only little ground around the shacks. Since 2013, Designing Hope has launched a training program to permaculture techniques and agroecology. This knowledge promotes access to nutritionally balanced meals, in a context of physical fragility, poverty and rising food prices, accentuating malnutrition. Reproducible seeds are made available, and training on seed conservation enable families to be self-sufficient over time.

 

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