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)