Goducate believes that backyard gardening is very helpful for poor communities. It gives them a steady supply of food, and the money saved on the vegetables they grow can then be used for something else. And if they plant a variety of vegetables, they can get a supply not just of fibre and vitamins, but also of proteins as well. Good compost is essential for good crops. When African night crawler worms are left to feed on a suitable mixture of vegetable material, they produce such compost.
The trainees at the Goducate Training Center get their practical training in the neighboring villages. They have started a vermicomposting project, whereby one household in each village is given a quantity of worms to start making the compost. Once vermicompost has been made in that pilot household, the trainees will encourage the neighbors to embark on vermicomposting as well. The worms multiply fast (they can double in quantity in a month), so a household can soon be passing on worms to other households. When most of the households are able to make vermicompost, Goducate will introduce organic farming across the communities.
So far the project has been started in 3 villages, in some of which several households are already doing vermicomposting.
