Permatil school gardens programme, Timor-Leste
Dili (nationwide), Timor-Leste · Operator: Permatil（Permakultura Timor Lorosa'e、2001年にエウジェニオ「エゴ」レモスが設立したNGO）
Overview
A nationwide school-garden programme run by the Timorese NGO Permatil. After the government made permaculture compulsory in the basic-education curriculum (under Arts and Culture) in 2015, Permatil has built gardens tied to lessons for Grades 3–6. The organisation reports 254 schools and more than 41,500 pupils. Working from the capital Dili, it takes materials and instruction directly to schools and parent committees.
Citizen participation
Teachers, pupils and parent committees build the school garden together, and growing vegetables, conserving water and designing permaculture plots are taught as class work. Permatil staff work directly with schools and parent committees to make it happen. In recent years the organisation has shifted weight from school gardens towards community gardens and water conservation.
Operating model
The programme sits inside the national curriculum but carries no government funding; Permatil covers the work through NGO partnerships and donations.
Impact
Widely cited as the first country to put school gardens into its national curriculum; Permatil's permaculture guidebook is published in English and Tetum and has been downloaded in more than 163 countries. Because no government budget accompanies the curriculum, however, the rate at which schools take it up depends on the NGO's own funding. Yields per garden and the contribution to school meals are not published.
Land tenure
The gardens sit on each school's own grounds; title rests with the (public primary) school and the arrangement for each garden could not be verified.
Crops
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Scale
団体の公表では全国254校に菜園が入り、41,500人を超える児童生徒が対象。2018年時点の別報道では実施校は約178校で、最終的な目標は全1,108の小学校
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This entry is compiled from the public sources, official sites and research below.
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