Sher Shah Colony community garden (Lahore)
Lahore, Pakistan · Operator: Institute for Art and Culture (IAC)／州立シェルシャー・コロニー女子高等学校
Overview
A pilot community garden started by the Institute for Art and Culture in Sher Shah Colony, a low-income neighbourhood off Raiwind Road in Lahore. Sited at a government girls' high school, the workshops covered health and nutrition, the economics of growing your own, and season-appropriate vegetables.
Citizen participation
Seventy students and ten teachers at a government girls' high school in a low-income neighbourhood took part under principal Zebun Nisa, in eight workshops from 13 October to 8 December 2020 covering bed preparation, soil mixes, and sowing and transplanting.
Operating model
Run as an outreach programme of IAC, with support from Gardening for All and The Little Arts and Adventure Foundation Pakistan.
Impact
Documented outcomes are educational and limited to the pilot; no yield or continuation figures were published. Recorded as an early example of a school-centred community garden in Pakistan, where such cases are scarce.
Land tenure
Crops
- 季節野菜
Scale
パイロット期に生徒70名・教員10名が参加
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