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Introduction
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Plenty Belize
Native Americans Fight Uranium Mining
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Plenty Belize
In 2007 Plenty Belize was awarded a grant by Onaway Trust to help start gardens at two new schools, Pueblo Viejo and Crique Sarco. Because much of the school year falls during the six month dry season, and the Pueblo Viejo garden site was so distant from a water source, Plenty Belize Executive Director, Mark Miller, devised a solar-powered pumping system to pump water from a large rain catchment tank below the school roof up to a smaller tank on the roof of the school so water could be gravity fed both to irrigate the garden and flush toilets in the school.
To date, Plenty Belize has helped 31 village schools in the Toledo District establish organic gardens.
In setting up a gravity-fed irrigation system at Pueblo Viejo Village School, water needed to be pumped from the large rain catchment tank below the school roof, up to smaller tank on top.
Along with their small grants, grant recipients were provided Students at St. Benedict School in Punta Gorda classes in small business management.
Pueblo Viejo Village School Principal Pedro Tush and Garden Coordinator Antonia Velda Arzu examine water flowing into tank.
Students at Crique Sarco Village School prepare bed for planting.
Using a grant from the European Union, Plenty Belize distributed 46 small grants, primarily to single mothers, to be used to start small businesses. In this photo, Mark is with Beatrice Mariano of Barranco Village who received a small grant to start a bakery.
Ermain Requena and Mark Miller install solar panel to power the pump on the school roof.
Plenty Belize Peace Corps volunteer, Mike McGuire, works with students of the St. Benedict School preparing dirt for planting seeds.
Students at St. Benedict School in Punta Gorda head out to their garden.
Midway Village School teacher, Jose Cue, talks to students about seedlings coming up in their planter box.
Plenty volunteer, Rick Katzenberg, delivers some of the kitchen equipment for Midway Village School Kitchen that was funded by the Flow Fund.