The school grows a garden with different vegetables and fruits for its own sustainance. It is a type of labour that often young people can look down on as a punishment. But by teaching agriculture the younger generation will support and improve farming and living in Rwanda.
I was able to identify most of the leaves except the “dodo.” Dodo is an African indigenous vegetable that is grown and harvested in the wild. I had it everyday for my luch in the school. It was picked from the school garden, rinsed, chopped and cooked with beens, banana and meat. Delicious and healthy! I love it.
Tomato – urunyanya
Onion – igitunguru
Papaia – paw paw
Banana – igitoki ( plantation) and umuneke (ripe banana)
Orange – icunga
Dodo
It was lovely when the students kindly taught me how to play Igisoro in GS Rango, Ruhuha.
Igisoro is a game played in Rwanda and in some other countries in Africa. It is a two-player game with 4x 8 holes in the ground and 64 seeds. As you can see through the pictures below we replicated it in a different way. We drew a table on the floor and used little stones instead of seeds.
Take a look at the posters below! They are not colourful and neither present elaborate designs, but it strikes me that they do catch my eyes and my thoughts. I am wondering if the same happens to you my reader. There is always a message to be delivered as there is an impact in the learning environment.
This blog aims to share my personal and professional experience in Rwanda
