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
Under the guidance of Tsephane, the head of the educational farm set up by The Ivory Foundation at St Paul’s school in Leribe, 6 young students take care of the animals (chickens, cows and pigs) on a daily basis, and … 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
As the weather did not allow us to work in the vegetable garden, we decided to create a memory game with the children. We printed black and white drawings of fruit and vegetables in vegetable gardens or baskets on sheets … 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
Children from the CLAJE, a community center in the Villiot-rapée area of the 12th arrondissement of Paris, joined the Designing Hope team for an afternoon of gardening in the Traversine Villiot garden, where they transplanted seedlings collected on the roof … Read More
Designing Hope has provided the Petits Princes school in Rufisque with new educational games for children, including memory games on vegetables and insects useful in the garden. These games, tested with the youngest pupils, have been very well received, enriching … Read More
