SCOPE Tanzania — School & Colleges Permaculture

From the field

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Real photography from SCOPE Tanzania's school and community work. Written stories of change, teacher and student voices, partner updates and event coverage will join these once partners submit them through the content workflow (scope doc §18).

Kibo School: building a garden from the ground up

Kibo School

Students and staff at Kibo School shaping swales, laying drip irrigation and planting seedlings on land that was, not long before these photos were taken, open field.

Wide view of the Kibo School garden site at golden hour, showing rows of drip-irrigated beds and new earthworks
A group of young people standing beside a newly dug swale at Kibo School
Kibo School students planting seedlings along drip-irrigation lines
A young team member connecting drip-irrigation lines in a garden bed at Kibo School
A young banana sapling planted in a swale beside a school building at Kibo School

Inside a permaculture demonstration garden

Site to be confirmed

A mandala-shaped keyhole garden and its surrounding beds, photographed from the ground and from the air, along with the everyday work of keeping it running: digging, mulching, watering and treating crops.

Real, consented SCOPE Tanzania programme photography, exact site not yet confirmed by TABIO.

Aerial view of a mandala-shaped keyhole garden surrounded by cultivated rows
A second aerial angle of the same permaculture garden, showing its layout beside a school building and road
A team member digging a planting hole in a garden bed
A team member mulching and watering newly planted rows
A team member planting a single potted seedling into a freshly dug trench
A cultivated garden bed with rows of leafy greens and a rainwater storage tank
Rows of banana plants growing along contour swales at golden hour
A team member applying treatment to crops with a backpack sprayer
A team member refilling a backpack sprayer beside a garden bed

A school planting day

School to be confirmed

A class turns out to plant a young tree and put seedlings in the ground along drip-irrigation lines, part of the everyday work that turns a school's grounds into a living classroom.

Real, consented SCOPE Tanzania programme photography, exact site not yet confirmed by TABIO.

A large group of schoolchildren in uniform planting seedlings together along drip-irrigation lines
Schoolchildren and a teacher gathered around a newly planted young tree