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About the College
The ESD institute collaborates with colleagues worldwide, developing simple methods enhancing social and environmental sustainability. Enclosed some video clips.
What can be changed in just one year?
Samuel, a kind man, is a schoolmaster at Nakuru. In 2013 he came to the intensive training course on ESD at MASHAV’s Ofri Center in Israel. Samuel, a born farmer, realized that what sustains him at home can also be relevant for the two thousand children in his school and help their families. Within a year he established a vegetable garden of about 4 acres, a nursery of trees with hundreds of plants, a fish pond, a small barn, a weather station, demonstration garden with a variety of plants, and the icing on the cake – a rabbit nursery.
Why is this rabbit nursery the icing on the cake in terms of Education for Sustainable Development?
Samuel and Maureen built the rabbit nursery from scraps of wood, teaching the children to take care of and look after the rabbits. What happens when they reproduce? Every time there are too many rabbits a trained child gets the offspring. Each child receives a pair of rabbits or a pregnant one. In only half a year about fifty children received rabbits to start their own nurseries it at home. They have the knowledge to act as leaders, and the resources to improve their lives, but what is more important is that they know it is in their hands. They have the abilities to shape their future.