We have said before that the pyramid of human needs rests on a base of water. Water is life, and we can’t be without it. Its transformational power is such that it can turn scarcity into sufficiency; to go from sufficiency to abundance though – just add food.

We had been implementing a permaculture garden with each residential rainwater harvesting system we built, teaching families to grow organic, nutritious greens that yield meals year-round.

As seasons began to swing between greater and greater extremes, drought dissolved in floods, plagues of locusts devastated crops, and children fainted from hunger at school.

It became clear that the only way to turn food fragility into security would be to create a microcosm of perfect conditions to nurture life and grow. Water makes food possible: we bridge the two with greenhouses.

They come in two sizes: large, to accompany the rainwater harvesting systems we build on primary schools – and small, to complement a family’s home tank. We fill them with green leafy vegetables from our farm that nourish communities, families and schools all year round. Midday meals for students incentivize attendance and give growing bodies and expanding minds the fuel they need.

The greenhouses require so little water that they can be irrigated with harvested rain, and the bounty of the crop is such that there’s often surplus to sell.

The bridge from scarcity to sufficiency is water. From sufficiency to abundance, it’s food.  From here, we unlock economic agency and empowerment – and up the pyramid of human needs we go. 

 

 

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