Principal helps village feed itself

From csmonitor.com: Principal helps village feed itself.

While 1 in 10 Kenyans face starvation as drought sweeps across East Africa, a rural principal is keeping his pupils off aid handouts by turning his school into a self-sufficient food producer.

Joseph Mbindyo runs a high school deep in the bush 80 miles east of Nairobi. For three years, until recently, no significant rain fell on the baked earth in the surrounding villages of Katangi district.

But with the introduction of a series of simple but innovative farming techniques, Mr. Mbindyo has succeeded in making his school an example of how this corner of Africa could feed itself despite drought, and lessen its perennial reliance on outside help. [continue]

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