Since 2012, Designing Hope has been developing permaculture gardens in southern Africa to help people become self-sufficient. The garden, developed by women who were trained by Designing Hope, promotes sustainable, family and ecological farming methods in the Hlohlo region of Swaziland.

Hot meals are also distributed to children of the area and vegetables are used to supply the school canteens.

Hlohlo Schools, Eswatini

A Designing Hope project supported by The Ivory Foundation :

  • Discover bellow the last posts of Hlohlo school gardens in Eswatini

The Hlohlo AME school pump

With support from the Ivory Foundation, a pump was purchased forEkujabuleni School, located 10 km from Piggs Peak. This pump will raise the water from the river located 200 meters below the school tosupply the school’s water reserves.The water, previously treated … Read More

Washing vegetables

Designing Hope undertook an awareness campaign on water saving. The washing of vegetables can be a source of waste, when it is done with running water at the exit of the tank. The purchase of basins for this purpose by … Read More

Harvest of vegetables at St. Paul’s School

Harvest of vegetables in the garden of St. Paul’s School. The children take part to the sowing, the maintenance of the vegetables, the watering and the harvests with a woman from the association Fundzisa Live. assigned to the garden.

School garden

The garden of HhoHho AME is one of the 5 school gardens set up by Designing Hope in its partner schools.

Local flora drawings sent to Paris

Dans le cadre des échanges entre les enfants s’occupant de jardins pédagogiques dans leur école et réunis autour du blog “Transjardins”, les enfants de l’école Hlohlo AME du Swaziland, ont envoyé aux enfants de l’école de Bercy (Paris), des dessins … Read More

Seed painting for Paris

The children of the Hlohlo AME school in Swaziland have prepared an original gift for the children of Bercy school (Paris). They picked up pods from their school’s garden big flamboyant tree and decorated them with paint. Kids from Paris will … Read More

The response from Lholho AME School

La Traversine and Hhohho Ame School, two educational gardens, one in France, the other in Swaziland. These two gardens fulfill different functions; the former serves as a model garden for conducting educational activities on the theme of ecological agriculture while … Read More

The Swazi “suitcase”

The children of the “Hlohlo AME” school of Swaziland, received a big envelope from the children of Bercy school (Paris)! For this occasion, they were gathered by the director to open this envelope containing letters and photos of their Paris … Read More

The suitcase for Lholho AME School

La Traversine and Hhohho Ame School, two educational gardens, one in France, the other in Swaziland. These two gardens fulfill different functions; the former serves as a model garden for conducting educational activities on the theme of ecological agriculture while … Read More

Pedagogical gardens in Swazi schools

6 schools are involved on the educational garden projects in Swaziland, within a perimeter of 30km around Piggs Peak and involving 240 children. Liens connexes : Préparation d’une butte Démarrage du jardin à Roosboom Préparation des buttes à Roosboom Bande … Read More