Vegetables Go to School The Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation supported a five-year project on school based nutrition and hygiene interventions to improve children`s nutritional status in five countries: Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Indonesia, Nepal and the Philippines. The Vegetables Go to School project was implemented by national task forces composed of representatives from the core […]
In December 2016, research partners from ALU and Swiss TPH conducted 05 day session of technical consultative meeting and CRE data management training for Bhutan team members in order to facilitate them for their respective policy workshop.
Policy inception workshop was organized by Swiss Tropical Public Health (Swiss TPH) Institute from 2nd till 5th August 2016. The policy workshop was aimed on three aspects; (1) to establish a shared understanding how each project partner will contribute to achieving the common goal of the last phase of the project, (2) to develop a […]
Training of teachers (ToT) conducted by Indonesian country team.
Several school activities such as canteen training, promotion event and coloring & drawing competition conducted by Vegetables Go to School (VGtS) Indonesian country team.
Schools in Bhutan have been setting up WASH stations for students to promote better hygiene. Click on the link to open this photo essay from Chumigthang MSS:
April 8, 2016: A Consultation Meeting on the Vegetables Go to School (VGtS) project was conducted on 8 April, 2016 in Thimphu, Bhutan with project teams from Bhutan and Nepal. Nine delegates from the Nepal VGtS participated, and Bhutan was represented with officials from the Bhutan Policy and Planning Division, Ministry of Agriculture and Forests and […]
A Crash Course on Integrated Farming was held 4-9 January 2016 at the Bhutan College of Natural Resources (CNR), Lobeysa for 40 school teachers from 13 Dzongkhags. The Course highlighted the importance of school gardening and linkage of gardening, nutrition and WASH. It also covered technical and practical training on vegetable and livestock production. The […]
The meeting was organized by University of Freiburg (ALU) which is one of the research partners in the project from 20 – 22 January, 2016. The moderation was conducted by Ms. Annelie Öberg from AVRDC – The World Vegetable Center, another research partner of the VGtS. The meeting was attended by 26 participants from 07 […]
On November 24th 2015, Vegetables Go to School (VGtS) project was launched in The Philippines. Several representatives from Xavier University-Sustainable Sanitation Centre (XU-SuSan) and Department of Education participated along with the officials from 16 schools which were initially selected to implement the project.
Vegetables Go to School is a project to address malnutrition, particularly among children, by establishing comprehensive school vegetable garden programs in selected countries in Africa and in Asia.
