5-19 Project Day

Today was the big day to start the projects at the school as well as our demonstration garden at convoy. As stated previously we did not show any signs of getting a lot done due to lack of working together. Surprisingly everything came together though! We had a successful day at the school and worked along side of the kids and finished weeding one entire cornfield! That was really cool. The kids showed us really how to do it! They were all hard workers and really did a good job and loved that we were along side of them helping! We later went to Convoy and presented our plan to them, which they loved. We quickly started to take down banana trees and start the double digging and anything that was needed to do to start prepping for planting and organizing the garden. It was really remarkable how well we came together to work together like we did. In my opinion I think it was mainly due to seeing the kids work before us and how well they did their job with no complaining. Everyone wanted to jump in and help which was awesome to see! We got one part of the double dig done as well as cleared out all the trees we needed to and a group successfully built a compost bin out of banana tree trunks! Pretty amazing if you ask me! The demonstration garden is going along nicely and will be of great value to the locals! Toxic charity states “the will to change our traditional charity systems, now that is the real challenge”(63 ) Us lending a hand and jumping into what was already going on was an encouragement to the kids and was a different way of helping than a traditional charity system.