Our TeleFood garden

This is our pride and joy - our garden. FAO has helped us to create this garden so we can have fresh fruit and vegetables with our lunch.

The money for the irrigation system and the seeds came from FAO's TeleFood programme, where people around the world contribute to small projects. Our school doesn't have money to buy vegetables, so if it wasn't for the garden we'd have none at all.

Without Raimundo, in his sailor's hat, we'd be lost. He is a retired farmer and helps us with gardening, planting and harvesting. He lives close to the school and can keep an eye on the garden. Sometimes thieves try to come in and steal our vegetables.