Children with Disabilities Agricultural Training Program

Funded by: Embassy New Zealand in Beijing China

Project location: UB, 116th and 29th school of visually impaired and the blind students

Project period: 2018-2019

Project goal

This project is aiming and helping 30 visually impaired and the blind/deaf students  to gain vocational  education by offering training in winter  greenhouse production, farming management and vegetable cooking, preserving  and processing raw vegetables into value added products. Through gaining knowledge, skill and vocational education, participating disabled children will improve their prospects of gaining better jobs  after their school graduation. The project also aims to build their  self-confidence and encourage them to become active participants  of their own communities. Lastly, the mini-project will promote the  employability of disabled people and their right to earn a living.

Main activities

In 2019 FARM agronomist, Mrs. Pagma Damdinsuren, has been conducting training courses for the students, teachers, workers and parents

• How to plant vegetables indoors

• How to take care of vegetables

• Insect and disease control

• Vegetable cooking and preserving workshop

Outcomes

In 2019 the project built a winter greenhouse at the 116th school of visually impaired and the blind students, school workers and planted 5-6 different vegetables in the newly established winter greenhouse under guidance of FARM’s professional agronomists and technical advisor Mr. Marlon Stufkens (Farmer of New Zealand) and agronomist Mrs.Pagma Damdinsuren. The harvested vegetables were used to support the school dormitory students’ food consumption(dormitory kitchen)