Last year our project was inclined in Edible Landscaping.The idea was to create a landscape, in this case which is vertical gardening and trellies to help supply part of the food supply to the school and to beautify the compounds around the school by providing shade and growing creepers.
We visited PSE again during the recce trip in June and the fruits of our last year's project was evident.
Here are some pictures!
An area that we did trellies was the school motocycle parking space which are used by the teachers and students that rides to school. Since there was no shelter initially, the motorcycles seats gtes pretty warm in the day. Also, the initial trees in the compound was not growing well due to lack of proper gardening skills and environment. As such, we built a mini garden around the compound and wiring so the creepers are able to grow up and provide shade for the motorcycles.
The picture on the right was the picture taken during the recce trip in June and the growth of the creepers are really wonderful and the personel in PSE actually extended the wiring from the shelter to the next building creating a canopy at the pathment below.
Vertical wiring was also one of our project that we did in PSE. The main idea of this is to beautify the classrooms blocks in the school. Wires are drilled down the classrooms corridors and creepers were plant to enable vertical gardening. When we left in december, the wiring for this is halfway through and there wasn't any plants growing yet. However, we were happy to see the wires to be filled with greenaries like the picture on the right! The plants bear products like lady's finger and chilli!
These two photos are product of the own changes PSE decided to make. When we arrive in December, this was not one of our project sites and was just an empty plot of land beside the canteen. However, during the recce trip we realise that it was turned into a garden! these 9 rows of soil is used to plant herbs, fruits and vegetables like corn. This area allows the students and teachers to be in community involvement activites and allow they to gain experience interacting and gardening. Students will help out whenever they can or are tasked to do so. We were happy that our project continues even after we left Cambodia! (:
This is a section of smile village. Smile village is where the people in the slums will live when they get eradicated form their homes. It was just a bare land when we came for the project last year and this year, there were houses up and this is where we will be working this year to bring our past experience from Edible Landscaping and from the communities in Singapore to help in the livelihood of the newly formed Village!
Introducing to you the SUP-C'13 team! You will have just as much fun or even more than what we had!(:
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