Tafea, Vanuatu

Traditional Food Education, a successful three-year-old project has been redesigned as a KOHA project for Tafea.

Children at 22 upper primary schools grow nutritious gardens in their schools and learn practical agriculture by: sowing seeds, maintaining gardens, harvesting, and then selling their garden produce at a local market.

This has also introduced valuable food and nutrition education using locally grown root vegetables and legumes

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In Penama Province on Pentecost Island

The Functional Literacy Project on Pentecost is a four-year project to address the island’s high illiteracy rate, helping people who have never had the opportunity to learn basic reading, writing and numeracy.

Two people from each of the 60 villages are being trained to teach reading, writing and numeracy to villagers. An estimated 68% of villagers are unable to read and the project aims to educate 1,200 people during the life of the project, enabling men and women to read and write in the local language.

World Vision supports the project with printed materials, teaching and learning materials for the teachers and students.

NZ Government is match funding this project contributing $4 for every $1 donated.