Within Self Help Africa’s PRESERVE Project, funded by Irish Aid, and based in southern and central Zambia – 13 ‘Green School Clubs’ have been established to harness the energy and direct the concerns of young people to positive action in their communities.

At Gwembe Primary School, the focus is on food production, with school-children playing a leading role in the production of vegetables in a polytunnel that produces crops for a part of the year using hydroponics.

With backing from the World Food Programme, Self Help Africa has supported a school food production initiative at 78 schools across Zambia in the past five years, with over 20 of the schools being supported with hydroponics.