Kale Breakfast From The Floating Garden

"I like to eat kale and spinach the most," said Dortea cheerfully after taking the kale harvested by her mother. "Dortea likes eating vegetables," added her mother.  

Dortea (6 years old) is the daughter of Mrs. Paskalina. Both of them live in one of the villages in Asmat Regency. Today they are delighted because they can harvest kale for the fourth time. This kale results from the Floating Nutrition Garden Program, assisted by Wahana Visi Indonesia after receiving a GlobalGiving grant made in partnership with 3M.

The Floating Nutrition Garden is a solution to the agricultural problems that the community in Asmat Regency has experienced. Asmat's geographical condition consists of swamps, so when rainfall is high, water levels rise, and all agricultural products and gardens, the community plants are submerged. The community still only grows crops, so crop failure often occurs, which leads to a lack of child nutrition due to difficult access to food sources.  

Through the Floating Nutrition Garden program, from a GlobalGiving grant made in partnership with 3M, WVI provides wood assistance, building the construction of floating gardens together with the communities. WVI and the community worked together by determining the land, creating a floating garden, and finding suitable soil to become a planting medium. WVI also provided vegetable and fruit seeds for the community members of the Floating Nutrition Garden group.  

Not only that, but WVI also teaches proper cultivation and planting methods so that results can be optimized. "Usually, we plant the seeds directly, but now we know that we have to make a distance so that they grow well," said Mrs. Paskalina.

Writer : Yuventa (Head of Public Engagement and Communications)