At La Traversine Bercy, children celebrated autumn with an artistic stencil painting activity inspired by the colours and shapes of the season. Armed with stencils representing around fifteen varieties of tree leaves, brushes, sponges and warm-coloured paints — red, orange, … Read More
The children of the Villiot nursery are happily resuming their little routines in the Traversine garden, located right next to the nursery. Like real little gardeners, they come to put kitchen peelings in the compost bin, as all meals are … Read More
At the Traversine Villiot garden, 12 children from the Paris Anim’ Annie Fratellini center gathered to work on the petals of the vegetable mandala. The children worked enthusiastically together, under the guidance of the Designing Hope educational team. They began … Read More
At the Traversine Bercy garden, school children are actively involved in growing strawberries on the roof terrace. After transplanting the runners into new trays in the autumn and helping with weeding, maintenance and watering throughout the year, they were able … Read More
The Traversine Bercy garden celebrates the first year of its reinstallation on the roof terrace of the Bercy school in its new configuration. The vegetated structures are now all planted, and the plants are in full growth, offering a verdant, … Read More
This spring, children from the Paris Anim’ Annie Fratellini center took part in a permaculture gardening activity organized by the Designing Hope association in the Traversine Villiot garden. Children experimented with vertical gardening by taking over the bamboo teepee in … Read More
Today, children from the Bercy school took part in a leek planting activity at the Traversine garden, supervised by animators from the Designing Hope association. Before getting started, the organizers explained the essential steps for ensuring good leek growth: cutting … Read More
The strawberry plants harvested in September had time to develop over the winter, and were replanted by the kindergarteners in the Bercy school garden, alongside kiwis, vines and other climbers. Elementary school children also helped enrich the garden by planting … Read More
At the Saint-Paul School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Leribe, Lesotho, the children take part in the upkeep of the educational plots with the help of Tsephane, the school’s farm manager, and the 6 young students under … Read More
Every day, Joseph accompanies the children of the inclusive Petits Princes Handiscole school in Rufisque (Senegal) to the school’s roof terrace to help with the upkeep of the vegetable garden. Installed in 2022 by Designing Hope, with the support of … Read More
