Hospital’s seedlings
posted in: Macambeni – Piggs Peak
New seedlings are being prepared in the Designing Hope’s greenhouse at Piggs Peak Hospital. They will be send to the Macambeni garden in a few weeks …
Making a mini-compost
posted in: Compost, recovery, Traversine garden - Paris-Bercy
During school time activities, we decided to make a mini-composter with the children of Bercy School. For the production of our mini-compost, we needed different materials. We used as a container half of a plastic bottle. Then for the filling … Read More
Land Art with children
posted in: The Grand Potager - Lauris
The pupils of the four classes of the nursery school made mandalas with vegetable elements. Those have been found during winter at the Grand Potager in Fontenille. Mandala is a word in Sanskrit language which means circle. In permaculture, the … Read More
Repotting our cuttings
posted in: The Grand Potager - Lauris
It’s time to repot our small cuttings that have grown… For this, we were helped by little hands…Each child was able to make their own potting, so we marked their names on their respective potty. Thus, the children will be … Read More
Food distribution in Macamabeni Creche
With the support of The Ivory Foundation, Designing Hope supports the Macambeni crèche, and improve the meals of its 20 disadvantaged children with vegetables produced in the garden. Depending on the season and the yield, a supplement is delivered every Monday … Read More
Transplanting salads on La Traversine
The elementary children from Bercy came to help us plant our crops on the roof of the school, in the Jardin de la Traversine. On the program, transplant salads that have sown on their own, thanks to the feet that … Read More
Collective participation
posted in: Burkina Faso, Yagma Garden - Ouagadougou
At the end of a school day, Yagma’s students go to the garden and participate in its maintenance and watering. Vegetables that will soon enhance their meals served in the canteen…
Harvests and new crops in Yagma’s garden
posted in: Burkina Faso, Yagma Garden - Ouagadougou
New crop beds are growing at Yagma as the latest harvest of peppers and zucchini has just been made. Cabbage boards, and Milpa boards, combining squash and corn.
The Bercy scarecrow
During an afternoon in extracurricular time, the children of Bercy school went to the UMCEBO gallery and were able to discover an exhibition organized by the association Desining Hope. This exposition has been realized to the benefit of Desining Hope’s … Read More
Land Art Workshop
During a school time activity at the Bercy school, we carried out a Land art workshop with children from the middle section. Upstream, the children went to collect leaves and branches in Bercy Park. We did the activity in … Read More